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The Dollar Business Bureau  Switzerland’s President Doris Leuthard has started her three-day visit to India from Thursday, which is aimed at strengthening bilateral relations and to discuss regional and global issues of mutual interest.  The visit of Swiss President to India assumes high significance as India is looking for its entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the 48-nation nuclear club, of which Switzerland is currently the chair.  Leuthard is accompanied by a huge business delegation and will hold discussions with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.  “Both countries share common views on many major global issues. The visit will provide an opportunity to both sides for holding wide-ranging discussions on bilateral, global and regional issues of mutual interest," according ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  Malaysia on Thursday proposed to invest $30 billion in urban development and housing projects in India. A 30-member Malaysian delegation, led by Minister of Works Haji Fadillah Bin Haji Yusof, met Minister of Urban Development and Housing M Venkaiah Naidu to discuss investment opportunities in developing and redeveloping urban areas under the Smart City Mission. “Redevelopment of New Delhi Railway Station adjoining area as a mini-smart city is proposed to be taken up with an investment of about $24 billion. CIDB also proposed to take up a Green City Project at Garhmukhteshwar in Uttar Pradesh involving housing and Ganga cleaning projects with an investment of about $4 billion,” Ministry of Urban Development said in a statement. On ...

Deepak Kumar | The Dollar Business The government on Thursday announced that it will declare names of the first 20 smart cities by the end of this year. “Twenty smart cities are going to be selected by the end of this year. Next year 40 cities, and the remaining 40 cities will be picked next to next year (in 2017),” said Union Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu. Speaking at the “Smart Cities Summit 2015” in New Delhi, Naidu said, “Companies from 14 countries; the US, Canada, UK, France, the Netherlands and Spain, have been selected for the preparation of cities level plan for 42 mission city. This shows the global interest of the Smart Cities programme.” Indian as well ...

Source: PTI Urban Development Minister, Venkaiah Naidu at a roundtable discussion in Washington DC. Source: PIB, Government of India   India's economy is back on track and the country's growth rate is likely to cross eight per cent in the coming years, Indian Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has said as he asked US investors to take advantage of the current business-friendly atmosphere. "Public life in India is undergoing a rapid transformation. The economy is back on track, inflation is under control, and growth rate is likely to cross eight per cent in the coming years," Naidu, 66, said in his interaction with the American industry leaders at a round table organised by the US India Business Council (USIBC) on Wednesday. ...

The Dollar Business Bureau With an aim to expedite the process of construction activity, the Indian government on Tuesday called for the fast processing of approvals required for taking up construction projects in urban areas through rationalization. To this effect, the government called for decrease in number of approvals and No Objections that are usually followed for approving a construction activity. If implemented on a larger scale, this move by the government would definitely attract investments in the infrastructure sector. In a meeting convened by the Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, Ministers and Secretaries of seven related ministries held extensive discussions on the current system of according approvals and the way forward. Speaking at the meet, Venkaiah Naidu ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau The Union Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu on Friday laid stress over Public-Private-People Partnership (4P) and Smart Leadership, Smart Governance, Smart Technologies and Smart People (4S), as key processes towards successful urban management and achievement of Smart Cities initiative. Addressing the ‘Consultation Workshop with States and Stakeholders’ being organized by his Ministry, Naidu said building smart cities is all about 4S and 4P. Stating that the Public-Private-People Partnership is the best destination in meeting the resource challenges, Naidu called the people to become partners in the city development by willing to pay for the value addition to the services and enforce accountability. Attracting investments, adoption of technology platforms to reduce human-human interface, ensuring online delivery of services and ...