Manipur CM urges NITI Aayog to drive state's recovery and developmentManipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh urged NITI Aayog to spearhead the state's economic recovery and long-term development, emphas...
12 Jun, 2026, 11.49 PM IST
Karnataka minister MB Patil seeks restoration of Bengaluru–Shivamogga flights under UDANKarnataka Infrastructure Development Minister MB Patil has requested the Union government to reintroduce the Bengaluru-Shivamogga air route...
11 Jun, 2026, 07.02 PM IST
Power storage VGF of Rs 15,000 crore in worksIndia is planning a significant boost for energy storage. A new viability gap funding scheme is in the works for 112 gigawatt-hour projects...
30 May, 2026, 05.30 AM IST
Energy storage to hit record highIndia's energy storage sector witnessed a record surge in July, with states tendering 8.1 GWh of capacity. Auctions revealed a record low t...
02 Aug, 2025, 12.38 AM IST
Finance Ministry notifies updated viability gap funding schemeProjects under the scheme would be implemented by a private sector company as selected by the government or a statutory entity through a pr...
10 Dec, 2020, 10.59 PM IST
UDAN: No GST on Viability Gap Funding disbursementThe government has decided not to levy the Goods and Services Tax on disbursement of Viability Gap Funding extended to select airlines unde...
27 Dec, 2017, 06.02 PM IST
After SpiceJet, Indigo wants no financial support for regional flightsThe government has received a total of 141 proposals from 17 airlines and also received counter bids for 55 proposals from 10 airlines.
13 Dec, 2017, 02.40 PM IST
UDAN: Airfares to be revised every three monthsWhile airfares would be linked to inflation, viability gap funding would depend on inflation, cost of aviation turbine fuel and the rupee-d...
10 May, 2017, 10.33 PM IST
No fixed limit for viability gap funding in regional air connectivity plan: Aviation MinisterThe scheme to connect under-served airports provides for gap funding to the participating airlines, which will be funded by the Centre and ...
07 Feb, 2017, 06.54 PM IST
Govt mulls higher VGF for planes with less than 20 seatsTo compensate the operators, the Civil Aviation Ministry would be providing viability gap funding -- which would be partly raised by way of...
27 Nov, 2016, 02.58 PM IST
Government approves Rs 5050 crore funding to push solar projectsGovernment today approved a 'viability gap funding' (VGF) of Rs 5,050 crore for setting up over 5,000 MW of grid linked solar power project...
20 Jan, 2016, 05.53 PM IST
Public Private Partnership projects got Rs 596.39 crore as VGF in 2014-15The cost of PPP projects which got the VGF was Rs 3,595.93 crore in 2014-15, as per a written reply to Lok Sabha by Planning Minister Rao I...
08 May, 2015, 04.27 PM IST
- FM to convince CMs on viability gap funding
Finance minister P Chidambaram may ask for personal intervention of chief ministers of 16 states which have not yet sent any proposal for r...
05 Mar, 2007, 02.39 AM IST
- Viability gap funding to pay for red tape
The Centre is likely to keep unchanged the allocation under the viability gap funding (VGF) for infrastructure projects in 2007-08.
27 Jan, 2007, 02.24 AM IST
- VGF grants no alternative for freeing user charges
Has the viability gap funding (VGF), which provides last-mile finance in the form of grant-in-aid for public-private partnership projects i...
01 Jan, 2007, 01.39 AM IST
- FM to consider part-funding of Mumbai metro phase II
After declining to support the first phase of Mumbai metro rail project, the Finance Ministry is considering to partly finance the second p...
26 Dec, 2006, 12.40 PM IST
- Urban renewal scheme may fund city‘s metro project
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)-promoted Rs 2,356-crore Mumbai Metro One project is likely to be cleared soon sans viability gap funding.
21 Dec, 2006, 03.44 AM IST