NITI Aayog-SCE launches urban management programme
The Dollar Business Bureau National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) has partnered with Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) to launch an urban management programme in New Delhi. Singapore based non-profit organisation Temasek Foundation has granted an amount of SGD 851,750 to financially support the three-year programme. According to Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, “Urban Transformation is given first preference in National Development Agenda of India. The government has started several schemes for the development of the urban centres in the country that include Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Transformation (AMRUT), Housing for All by 2022 and 100 Smart Cities Mission. “In order to realise the vision of the government in initiating these schemes, NITI Aayog has collaborated with SCE. The programme ...
Madhya Pradesh signs four MoUs with Singapore
Source: PTI Madhya Pradesh on Thursday signed four MOUs with Singapore, including one on a 1,000-megawatt wind energy plant in western part of the state. The Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) were signed during a business seminar where visiting Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan gave an insight into the business potential, assuring that the Indian state has 25,000-hectare land bank for setting up industries. The wind-energy, the biggest of the four investment proposals, was signed by the Department of New & Renewable Energy with Singapore corporation unit, Sembcorp Green Infra Ltd. The other MoUs were signed by the Directorate of Town & Country Planning with Singapore Cooperation Enterprise, Department of Technical Education and Skill Development with ITE Education Services of Singapore, ...
