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AIIB ready to pump in $1.9 bn more into the country

AIIB’s vice-president and corporate secretary Danny Alexander said the project pipeline includes an investment in the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), the Mumbai Metro, major irrigation and flood management projects in Bengal, making of Andhra’s new capital city Amravathi, and two more projects in Andhra focused on rural roads and urban water supply. 

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Odisha refuses to implement Modicare, BJP says move to ‘hijack’ Centre’s scheme

As such, the state government would have to spend an estimated Rs 500 crore per annum for the Ayushman Bharat Programme as its 40 per cent share in the central scheme, he said. “It may cost a little higher to the state in case of implementing its own scheme. But, the state will not be forced to sign an MoU or follow the Centre’s guidelines,” an official at the health department said. 

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