Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal chaired a meeting with the Minister of Energy, Government of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Shri Shrikant Sharma and other senior officers of the State Power Department, here today. The marathon meeting lasted over 3 hours, focused upon chalking out a roadmap for revamping the State Power sector in the next 24 months.

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has announced that the much awaited Smart India Hackathon 2017 Grand Finale is scheduled to be held on April 1 & 2, 2017 simultaneously at 26 different nodal centers across India.

A PSU under Ministry of Railways, Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) has declared highest ever interim dividend of Rs.340 Crore for the Financial Year 2016-17.

Data on road crashes is reported by police Head Quarters of various States and UTs and Million Plus Cities in India to Transport Research Wing (TRW) of Ministry of Road Transport & Highways through a prescribed format devised under Asia Pacific Road Accident Data (APRAD), project of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

Based on proposals received from States for strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution network, including underground distribution networks in urban towns, Projects worth Rs.25,838 crore have been sanctioned so far,