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The volume was about 10% higher than the previous year, and the port has kept up continuous growth for four consecutive years since FY 2021-22.

Sarbananda Sonowal cited a coastline of roughly that length along the Bay of Bengal as one of Andhra Pradesh's strategic advantages, together with access to key international shipping routes and proximity to major Asian manufacturing and trading economies.

The shipbuilding cluster proposed there has in-principle approval under the National Shipbuilding Mission, envisages investment of about Rs 30,000 crore and targets an annual capacity of 1.2 million gross tonnes.

The framework says that a driver supplied by the operator would require police verification, and that the welfare of such drivers falls under this Code.

The proposal fixes a clock of 60 days for deciding the grant or renewal of a licence, so an application cannot be left hanging indefinitely.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has proposed bringing the floor for a Rent a Cab fleet down from 50 vehicles to just 5, which is the single change most likely to let small operators enter the business.

It carried out the nationally representative prevalence survey in 2025; the findings have gone to the World Health Organization, technical discussions are under way, and an updated country profile for India is to be published after that.

Over that period the campaign identified 48.64 lakh new tuberculosis patients, and 14.97 lakh of them had shown no symptoms, which is the strongest argument for going out and screening rather than waiting for patients to come forward.

For patients with drug-susceptible TB, India completes treatment successfully in 94% of cases, a figure the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2026 highlights alongside the fall in deaths.

The report credits India with a 38% reduction in TB mortality when the position is compared with 2015, and this is the steepest fall the country has recorded.

BHAVYA was among the initiatives displayed at the pavilion of the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation at the Summit, and the Union Commerce and Industry Minister drew particular attention to it during his visit.

These are the three greenfield industrial smart city nodes being developed in Andhra Pradesh by the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation under different industrial corridors, and their progress was explained to the Union Commerce and Industry Minister and the Chief Minister at the pavilion.

The thirty-first edition of the Summit is a two-day event held in this port city of Andhra Pradesh, with the State government as host and the Confederation of Indian Industry as organiser along with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

Among the sectors with strong industry participation, the report singles out the drones segment as the one that turned incentives into results earliest, alongside notable progress in pharmaceuticals, mobile phone manufacturing under Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing, food processing, telecom, white goods and automobiles.

The assessment is a sector-wise exercise spread over every sector notified by the Government under the Production Linked Incentive route, and that count is fourteen.

The study on the working of the Production Linked Incentive route was prepared by NITI Aayog with IIM Ahmedabad acting as its knowledge partner, and the institute's role was the reason the assessment could draw on firm-level data gathered from the ministries running each scheme alongside industry figures.

Distribution of that quantity of quality planting material is one of the main interventions planned, meant to support conservation, propagation and sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants by tribal communities.

The ministry launched the project in collaboration with that institute, and its Chief Scientist is the principal investigator of the work.

The project picks sixteen tribal pockets spread over thirteen States and Union Territories, running from Kargil in Ladakh and Dharchula in Uttarakhand in the north to Wayanad in Kerala and Kodagu in Karnataka in the south, with three of the sites, Kandhamal, Balangir and Koraput, lying in Odisha itself.

The ministry set this block of 10 GWh aside for large stationary battery installations that store electricity for the grid, a need that grows as renewable generation expands, because solar and wind output varies with the weather while consumption does not.