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March 1, 2019
The Federal Government is to partner with India toboost infrastructure development in the country.
The Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing  Mustpha Shehuri, who made this known in Abujawhen the India’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, paid him acourtesy visit, said that the federal government has recorded remarkableachievements in road, power and housing sectors of the country since itsinception in 2015.
The minister recalled that in 2015, power generationin the country was about 3,000 megawatts but the policies of the administrationhad improved generation and transmission to about 7,000 megawatts.
He said that the Federal Government inherited adecayed road sector with budgetary provision of about 15 billion naira in 2015.
According to him, the first budget of PresidentBuhari’s administration in 2016 allocated over 270 billion naira to the roadsector.
In his remarks, India’s High Commissioner toNigeria, Abhay Thakur, said the visit was to congratulate Nigerians for thesuccessful and peaceful conduct of the February 23 Presidentialand National Assembly elections.p://pa:�=@�^1