India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, set up the first campus in 1950 to churn out engineers to build big public-works and infrastructure projects.
Since then referendums have been held, or are being sought, on such varied topics as waste-disposal methods, public-works projects and American military bases.
Facing local pressure to spend more efficiently, these leaders are canvasing independent opinions on public-works projects and encouraging greater scrutiny of how money is spent.
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From Sri Lanka to the Seychelles, South Africa to Costa Rica, it sources some of its more tropical plants and works on projects that promote sustainable development.
Thousands of candidates from 50 electoral blocs were vying for 378 seats on provincial councils, which hold sway over public works projects and other decisions at the local level.
Sources say that the Obama team is urging Senate Democrats by phone and behind closed doors to remove some of the spending critics say won't stimulate the economy and add job-producing public works projects like roads and bridges.
Though housing construction has been waning, Hanson made our Global 2000 list of top-performing companies because it was raking in revenues from commercial and public works projects.
This industry, which includes office, hotel, retail, manufacturing, energy and public works projects, lost another 2, 000 jobs in January, even as the sector as a whole clocked positive gains.
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His position required Maehara to confront the vested local government and public works interest groups for on-going or planned pork-barrel public works projects, including some notoriously wasteful and unnecessary dams.
Those grants can pay for rebuilding roads and hospitals, other public works projects, helping small businesses reopen, restoring utilities and providing rental subsidies.
Documenta typically gives its artists at least two years to conceive and produce their projects, so the works are often elaborate and intellectually complex.
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China's local authorities are barred from borrowing directly and use such vehicles, backed by state banks, to fund welfare and public-works projects.
While China feeds its growing hunger for Africa's natural resources, the continent is becoming flush with roads, hospitals, schools, stadiums and other major works projects it desperately needs.
There are a number of 11 September-related movie and documentary projects in the works.
But he has said little since April 9th, concentrating on visiting public-works projects without giving speeches, and relying on a barrage of television advertisements.
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But he said the government wanted to use public sector works projects to boost the economy and would work to ensure people who lost their jobs found new ones.
Macri said Wednesday that the only solution is for the constantly warring governments to work together on expensive and long-term public works projects, creating huge underground drainage pipes to carry increasingly common torrential rains out to the Rio de la Plata.
Benioff said it wasn't enough, and Harris explained that other projects, including forecasting and calendar tools already in the works, would suffer.
Wasting little time since a September 2009 launch, Innovation Works has grown to 40 professionals and 25 incubated projects, with the vast majority already in product development.
It's also likely Democratic leadership will reward Jeffords with the chairmanship of the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee, which handles environmental policy and the building of highways, dams and other public projects.
In 2009, the World Bank complained about "systemic corruption and bid rigging" in Philippine public works projects.
But ten hotels are currently under construction in the region, and another 40 projects are in the works.
While he is grooming his son, Vikram, part of the group's operations, and his nephew, Arjun, who works on projects, Biki has no intention of retiring soon.
Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime.
Now 54, Guccione is back with plans to buy an unnamed multititle publisher sometime in 2010 and a fistful of other projects in the works.
She has a slew of projects in the works that -- if and when they become public -- will seem all the more impressive for someone who graduated from journalism school in 2011.
Take PDM-DKE, a state-sponsored program that works with non-governmental organizations to fund local food and employment projects.
Cazalot says projects in the works will enable Marathon to expand oil and gas output 7% in each of the next four years.
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