Year: 2022

Focused deliberations on key global issues of harnessing data for development and collective climate action constituted the third day of the 1st Development Working Group (DWG) Meeting under India’s G20 Presidency, being held in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Today marked the conclusion of all five substantive sessions of the four-day-long DWG meeting. Initiating discussions under Session 3 — ‘Data for Development’ — this morning, India’s DWG co-chairs Joint Secretaries Mr. Nagaraj Naidu and Ms. Eenam Gambhir contextualised the need to galvanise global efforts to effectively accelerate efforts to attain the goals of…

NMDC has reviewed its existing Standard Bidding Document and updated it with best practices adopted across the industry. The Standard Bidding Document makes Project Management and Monitoring, Scheduling of Work, Price Evaluation, Payment Advice, Flagging of Issues and Dispute Resolution simpler and easier, thereby enhancing ease of doing business with NMDC. The CPSE has prepared a comprehensive and all-encompassing document that would serve as a model for all its turnkey projects. Enabling geo-tagging of milestones, this initiative will boost the digital environment at NMDC. Commenting on the release, Shri Sumit…

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) signed a historic loan agreement for Rs. 4,444.71 crore with SJVN Green Energy Ltd. (SGEL, a subsidiary of SJVN Ltd.) today, for a 1,000 MW Solar power project at Bikaner, Rajasthan. The IREDA funded project will connect to 400/220 KV substation Bikaner-II (near Bikaner). SJVN has bagged the project through the tender floated by IREDA under the CPSU Phase-II (Tranche III) Scheme for development of Grid connected Solar PV Power Project through competitive Bidding Process based on VGF support. Speaking on the occasion,…

The Graduation Ceremony of the students of 2015 and 2016 batch of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Dental College and Hospital, Rohini was held at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, today. Shri Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Labour and Employment, and Environment, Forest and Climate Change was the Chief Guest. Shri Rameswar Teli, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, and Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ms. Aarti Ahuja, Secretary, Minister Labour and Employment, Dr. Rajendra Kumar, DG, ESIC and Prof. (Dr.) Mahesh Verma, Vice Chancellor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprasth University,…

The United Nations (UN) has recognized Namami Gange initiative to rejuvenate India’s sacred River Ganga as one of the top 10 World Restoration Flagships to revive the natural world. The Award was received by Shri G. Asok Kumar, Director General, Namami Gange at a function in the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada on 14th December 2022, the World Restoration Day. Namami Gange was selected from over 150 such initiatives from 70 countries across the globe. They were selected under the banner…