‘Rural infrastructure, healthcare to drive demand for construction equipment’
December 30, 2020
Deepak Shetty, CEO and Managing Director, JCB India× The construction equipment industry sees two emerging categories infrastructure development in rural India and the creation of a strong healthcare system as growth drivers in the coming years, even as the industry sees green shoots with the revival of infrastructure projects.
“Rural India is set to emerge as a strong growth driver, especially with the recent push by the government through programmes such as PMGSY (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana),” says Deepak Shetty, CEO and Managing Director, JCB India.
Schools, colleges and industries have to be built in the rural areas and segments such as roads and infrastructure are set to witness activity. This will drive more construction activity. In the post-lockdown period, it was rural India that spurred demand for many categories, including construction equipment.
Modi government making strong arrangements for farmers: Raj BJP chief
Sat, Dec 26 2020 08:12:49 AM
Jaipur, Dec 26 (IANS): Rajasthan BJP state President Satish Poonia on Friday interacted with the farmers in an open field during a Kisaan Chaupal and said that for the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accomplished the task of giving 1.5 times MSP to the farmers and made best arrangements for them for advanced farming, away from traditional farming techniques. The budget of agriculture in this country during the Congress regime in 2013-14 was Rs 21,000 crore. Today it has gone up to Rs 1.34 lakh crore. The increased budget aims to make the farmers of India prosperous through innovation, he said.
Bandaru Dattatreya
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
December 25 is celebrated as Good Governance Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A great statesman and a capable leader, he was a doyen of Indian politics. It was due to his charisma and administrative skills that he successfully led one of the most diverse coalition governments of independent India. Leaders from all political parties respected him and saw him as a role model. This was the reason that the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao sent him to represent India at the United Nations.
When the Emergency was imposed, he agitated for the protection of democracy and was put in jail. In 1977, he became the External Affairs Minister in the Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai. As External Affairs Minister, he won the respect of leaders from all over the world, especially Islamic countries. He was instrumental in developing good relations with our neighbours. This goodwill generated by him helpe
3 broad aspects of good governance that PM Vajpayee brought in
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3 broad aspects of good governance that PM Vajpayee brought inBy G Kishan Reddy, ET CONTRIBUTORS
Last Updated: Dec 25, 2020, 12:12 AM IST
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Prime Minister Vajpayee’s strategic vision led to a boost in infrastructure building. While the golden quadrilateral is a visible contribution, the effect of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was equally transformative.
In the photo: Former Prime Minister of India & Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The idea of an incumbent government seeking re-election based on its performance was not a deciding factor in elections in India till the mid-1990s. Till then the Congress party’s inherent advantage of being perceived to have spearheaded the freedom movement and the structural weakness of opposition parties to take advantage of anti-incumbency inoculated the Congress party in spite of a poor performance record. It was the liberalisation regime of the 1990s
Updated: December 24, 2020 10:21:05 pm
Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee was Prime Minister of India once for 13 days, second time for 13 months and third time for four and a half years.
In the last seven decades of politics, a personality emerged in India and the country accepted it easily. In the way history happens, a leader too is born. One such leader was Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Many researchers are working on Atalji’s life, his thoughts, his conduct as leader of opposition, as the prime minister of India, his understanding of foreign policy, life in Parliament, oratory, how he left an indelible impression on the psyche of the public mind and so on. The consensus today is there has no politician like Atalji