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Industry

India to harness 50,000 km of sea and river fronts: Nitin Gadkari

Parliament, by passing the crucial bill to declare 111 rivers across the country into National Waterways last week, has paved the way for development of these stretches as transport carriers

2 min read13 Mar 2016
Politics

Govt uses green energy fund for fiscal balancing

PMO has asked finance ministry to disburse money collected for NCEF to environmental initiatives

3 min read21 Apr 2015
Budget 2015

Budget 2015: India raises coal cess; electricity tariff to go up by 4-6 paise per unit

The clean energy cess will be increased from Rs100 to Rs200 per tonne of coal to finance clean environment initiatives

5 min read28 Feb 2015
Politics

India may leverage clean energy fund to hedge foreign loans

Developers want to borrow overseas as loans are cheaper than those offered by local banks and financial institutions

4 min read17 Feb 2015
Politics

Solar mission: Govt to turn 20,000 jobless graduates into entrepreneurs

State governments will choose graduates to be trained by the centre for around 3-6 months so they have the skills to set up solar power plants of 1 megawatt each

3 min read28 Nov 2014
Politics

UPA diverted funds to tweak fiscal deficit

NDA govt last week said collections made in India's green energy fund announced in Union Budget of 2010-11 was used by UPA to meet fiscal deficit

3 min read12 Aug 2014
Industry

Green corpus without a cause?

India's green energy fund, which currently has around `12,000 crore in the bank, runs the risk of becoming another corpus without a cause

4 min read22 Jul 2014
Politics

Jaya seeks Rs1,500 cr grant for wind energy project

The Tamil Nadu chief minister urges PM to intervene with the ministry of finance for the sanction of NCEF fund

1 min read16 Sep 2013

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