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 ...
'Cold chains must be linked to farm clusters'
Sai Nikesh | The Dollar Business India has cold storage capacity of up to 31.8 million tonnes and the gap in the country’s cold chain is much due to lack of connectivity between storage facilities and farm clusters, a report has said. The report— All India Cold-chain Capacity Assessment (Status & Gaps) – prepared by the National Centre for Cold-chain Development (NCCD) highlights the need of modern pack-houses and refrigerated transport to ensure the growth of the country’s food processing industry. “The lack of pack-houses and transport connectivity results in a breach in the integrity of cold-chain. This also results in most of the cold storage capacity being used to store only crops like potato, dried chillies, pulses, etc. which do ...
