Call to Action

October 2017

During the current regime of the NDA government, the narrative has shifted from unclogging, untangling, unblocking to easing, simplifying, digitising...

Tags: NDA government, Swachh Bharat, GDP, Demonetisation, GST, CMIE, Steel, Construction, BOT affordable housing projects, Kinetic energy, Smart solutions

OPERATION IN(FRA)SOLVENCY

September 2017

With over Rs11 lakh crore debt, project investments worth Rs.32.7 lakh crore and cost overrun of Rs14.35 lakh crore is at stake, the current Insolven...

Tags: Investments, Insolvency, Bankruptcy Code 2016, NPA, ICRA, Ajit Gulabchand, NITI Aayog, Ashwini Mehra, State Bank of India, Infrastructure, IDFC, CMIE, MOSPI, NHAI, Hari Sankaran

Forget elections, fix the economy!

September 2017

The economy is huffing and puffing. Its health report indicates a serious infection. The economy has been inflicted with two rounds of disruptions wh...

Tags: Demonetisation, GST, SME industry, GDP, CMIE, Project pipeline, Infrastructure Projects

PRIME THE PUMP

August 2017

Earlier in May, when I had asked Sajjan Jindal, chief of JSW - the group with the best appetite for capital investment - when the private sector woul...

Tags: Sajjan Jindal, JSW, Investment, GFCF, Piramal Group, Shriram Group, Ajay Piramal, CMIE, TOT, NHAI, L&T, GST

Set for an infra-run

February 2017

Data suggests that demonetisation has hit the pace of announcement of new investment proposals during the quarter-ended December 2016 The Union Budge...

Tags: Demonetisation, Union Budget, Railway Budget, PMGSY, Nitin Gadkari, AMRUT, the Smart Cities mission, Namami Gange project, Swachh Bharat, GST, CMIE

Step up contracts!

August 2016

The industrial policy statement of July 24, 1991, set the notes on which the elephant learnt to dance. Manmohan Singh´s reform Budget scrapped indust...

Tags: Manmohan Singh, CMIE, Union Minister of Roads, Nitin Gadkari, Bharatmala projects, TOT Model, Tunnel Projects, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, NIIF, Konkan Railways Project, Power Transmission Project, Road Projects, KR Construction, J Kumar, RPS Infraprojects

The tide is turning

May 2016

Projects commissioned in the country reached a record high of Rs 4.6 lakh crore in FY2016, according to CMIE. ...

Tags: CMIE, FDI, UDAY, DISCOM, Bitumen, Construction, PPP, ASSOCHAM, SEZ, Infrastructure, Ports, Energy, Water Sanitation, Airports, Tourism

A Turnaround in the Offing?

May 2016

For the past two years, corporate earnings were subdued, the real estate and construction sectors slowed down and the capex of the infra and manufact...

Tags: Real estate, Construction sectors, Capex, Budget, Baltic Dry Index, Indian Meteorological Department, CAD, IIP, CMIE, GDP growth, OROP