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Capital expenditure across sectors linked to mining and construction equipment is likely to nearly double to Rs 10 lakh crore by 2030, driven by accelerated work on national highways, metro rail, ports, airports and critical mineral extraction, a report said on Tuesday. In 2025, capital expenditure across sectors linked to mining and construction equipment stood at Rs 5.5 lakh crore. India's mining and construction output stands at around USD 430 billion, close to 11 per cent of GDP, and supports the livelihoods of over 70 million people across the value chain, according to a report by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), released on Tuesday. The report titled -- Pressing the Throttle: How India's Mining and Construction Industry Can Support Domestic Ambitions and Become a Global Force, noted that the sector must adapt quickly to remain fit for purpose, highlighting three priorities. Moreover, the technology base is shifting rapidly, with ..
Tata Steel is looking to spend around Rs 20,000 crore as capex in the current financial year and a major share of it will be spent to support the India business, the company's management said. The capex for the ongoing FY27 will be around 38 per cent higher from Rs 14,559 crore that Tata Steel has spent on capital expenditure in the preceding 2025-26 financial year. "In FY26, we spent Rs 14,559 crore on capital expenditure, and we plan to increase this to approximately Rs 20,000 crore in FY 2026-27, with 60 per cent allocated to India," said Tata Steel's CEO & MD T V Narendran, and Koushik Chatterjee, the company's Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer. The management made the statement in reply to a question related to Tata Steel's capex plans and long-term growth strategy. They said the capital allocation strategy for FY27 focuses on a balanced mix of sustenance projects, ongoing investments in value-added downstream and infrastructure projects, new technologies, and .
Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) Group will be investing up to Rs 40,000 crore in the next two to three years towards capital expenditure, aiming to achieve a topline of Rs 2 lakh crore in five years, a top executive of the infra major has said. PV Krishna Reddy, Managing Director of MEIL, also said the group is aiming to take some of its subsidiaries to an Initial Public Offering every couple of years, with the first one being Evey Trans Pvt Ltd, followed by the Defence vertical and Gas Distribution and so on. Evey Trans is the only 100 per cent electric bus operator in India. Established in 2018, the company successfully operates e-buses in multiple cities like Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Silvassa, Goa, Hyderabad, Dehradun and Nagpur. "Last year, the entire Group did around Rs 60,000 crore. This year we are expecting Rs 80,000 crore. We aim to achieve Rs 2 lakh crore topline in the next five years, the entire group including new businesses," Krishna Reddy told PTI in .
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday emphasised that state governments must channel their borrowed funds into long-term capital expenditure, such as schools and hospitals, rather than relying heavily on revenue expenditure like cash distributions when financial resources are tight. Addressing the media, Sitharaman underscored that taking loans to create public infrastructure yields a positive economic impact and generates employment for the next 50 to 60 years. "Borrowing is not the issue, but what you do with the borrowed money matters. Are you creating assets? Is it bringing education, industries, or increasing employment? That should be the focus," she said, noting that states are permitted to borrow up to three per cent of their Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP). Sitharaman, who is on a two-day visit to Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, attended Maha Kumbabhishekam of Sri Upanishad Brahmendra Mutt in Kancheepuram on Thursday. Later in the day, she is scheduled to ..
The government is committed to the budgeted Rs 12.22 lakh crore capital expenditure in the current fiscal despite the fiscal stress arising from the ongoing West Asia crisis, a senior official said on Friday. Expenditure Secretary V Vualnam said the upcoming few months, the next quarter and the year ahead would be very difficult to envisage with lots of possible stress points. " So the fiscal stress is indeed very much a reality, but at the same time the priority sectors... the CAPEX would really be a priority item which we would like to preserve and ensure that it continues at the budgeted level," Vualnam said at the ICPP Growth Conference organised by the Ashoka University. He said highways, railways, shipping, ports, and urban development sectors would be the focus areas for FY'27 capex. Stating that the current global uncertainties have thrown a "very challenging situation" for India, he said, the government has been proactive in trying to tackle each situation with agility. B