Overview
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman directed the DEA to approve $1 billion from the ADB for rural roads, $500 million from the World Bank for coastal resilience and $500 million for municipal wastewater reuse.
- Proposals for a 12.7 lakh-tonne, ₹10,000-crore fertiliser plant in Nagpur and a $2.6 billion plan to build 14,000 km of maintenance-free rural roads are under central consideration and subsidy review.
- NITI Aayog officials pledged expedited clearance for tech-driven and sustainability initiatives, including AI-based health screening, a $500 million bamboo industrial cluster, major water-interlinking projects and ITI-industry skill training.
- Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut signalled that alliance discussions in Delhi aim to overhaul the cabinet, echoing Saamna’s list of eight ministers facing potential removal.
- Fadnavis’s outreach in Delhi encompassed meetings with Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and other Union leaders to bolster Maharashtra’s development agenda.