Project of six laning of Barwa Adda - Panagarh Section of NH-2. IndiaPune Municipal Corporation panel backs monorail project. IndiaThe monorail project, which was approved along with the metro rail project amidst major controversies a few months back, but was put on the back burner, is all set to get a major thrust with the Pune Municipal Corporation standing committee chairman, Arvind Shinde, on Tuesday asking the civic administration to invite offers from private firms and also seek details from the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority on how the project can be carried out in Pune.Third Chennai box terminal approved. IndiaIndia's Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has given the green light for a project to build a large new container terminal in the port of Chennai. This will require investment of $800m and will be offered as a build-operate-transfer project, as part of a 30-year concession. Construction will take seven years to complete and the container terminal will have a capacity of 4m teuCabinet nod for setting up 20 IIITs in PPP mode. IndiaThe government approved setting up of 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) at a cost of Rs 2808.71 crore. The IIITs will be set up on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the Centre funding 50 per cent of the capital cost, state governments 35 per cent and the rest by the industry. Each Institute is expected to specialise in application of IT skills in one or more domain areas, an official release said.Land disputes hitting Indian infrastructure schemes. IndiaProtests against a proposed Indian nuclear power plant this weekend highlight a growing problem facing developers, experts say, as the country tries to upgrade or build much-needed infrastructure. Thousands of fishermen, farmers and their families in Jaitapur in western Maharashtra state turned out in force on Saturday to denounce the loss of homes and agricultural land, as well as voice fears about radiation and pollutionFollow us on twitter!