Future-ready Railways
February 01, 2021
Weathering Covid, the national transporter has a ₹ 2.08 lakh cr plan
To make Indian Railways future ready, the government proposes to provide ₹1.10 lakh crore next fiscal, of which ₹1.07 lakh crore will be spent as capital expenditure. It is budgetary support portion from the plan size of ₹2,15,058 crore, which also includes borrowing and internal revenue generation.
The national transporter’s total revenues are expected to bounce back to ₹2.08 lakh crore in fiscal 2021-22, according to the Union Budget. Of this, 29 per cent (₹61,000 crore) will be by moving passengers and ₹1,28,000 crore by moving goods like coal, steel automobile, cement, foodgrain.
Instead of bench pressing the weight of your average fully grown black bear, Sumeet Sharma has been lifting the spirits of frontline workers.
Sharma, a competitive powerlifter with several gold and silver medal finishes earned over his career already, was set to compete in the European Junior Powerlifting Championships last May until the coronavirus (COVID-19) dashed those plans. As the pandemic spread and put increasing pressure on frontline workers, Sharma would switch out lifting disks of iron for crates of water bottles and boxes full of food to donate to nurses across the Lower Mainland.
“I have a lot of family members and friends who work in hospitals, just hearing their stories about how healthcare workers working extremely hard during this pandemic really inspired me, my family, and my sponsors to give back to the healthcare workers,” Sharma wrote in an email to Vancouver Is Awesome.
Cilicant opens third facility in Pune Pune-based pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer Cilicant has announced the set-up of its third manufacturing facility in the city. The new facility has tripled Cilicant s production capabilities
Manish Jain, founder, Cilicant, said, “Continuous improvement has always been the crux of our company’s growth. With the launch of our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, we intend to continue with the same ethos that we started with - outstanding quality and superior safety standards. We thank our customers who have not only supported us, but have inspired us to be the best that we can be. It is due to the loyalty and support of our customers that we have achieved this incredible milestone.”
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CILICANT has become one of the world’s trusted brands in active pharmaceutical packaging. The company manufactures a range of high-quality solutions which are designed to protect products from the harmful effects of moisture and oxidation.
ET Spotlight
Cilicant is dedicated to quality assurance and is a holder of DMF with USFDA and Health Canada and is ISO 15378:2017 certified.Leading active packaging firm, CILICANT, has announced the launch of its third manufacturing facility in Pune; increasing its manufacturing capacity threefold in order to meet increasing demand. Since its launch in 2011, Cilicant has gone from strength to strength and has solidified its place as a market leader in the manufacture of active pharmaceutical packaging. With a focus on superior quality products, meticulous safety standards and state of the art technology, Cilicant has opened the doors to its third facility despite the difficult market conditions presented by the pandemic.
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Sumeet Sharma couldn’t head to the Czech birthplace of Pilsner beer last year for the world powerlifting championships, but the B.C. corrections’ officer hopes to be in the Kazakhstan home of the wild apple this fall representing Canada.
In the meantime, he’s been tirelessly criss-crossing the Lower Mainland delivering refreshments and nourishment to front-line workers during COVID-19. That would include Indian fare, pizza, nutrition bars, coffee and bottled water, not beer from Pilsen, Czech Republic, or
Malus sieversii (the Central Asian apple that has grown for thousands of years near Almaty, Kazakhstan, home of this year’s planned world championships).