Government needs Rs 1 trillion in three years to build 10 million houses

January 2019

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban (PMAY-U), which was implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under the Housing for All by 2022...

Tags: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Rahul Prithiani, CRISIL Research, Housing and Urban Development Corporation, Prasad Koparkar, Construction

Construction of at least 800 km highways at risk this fiscal

January 2019

CRISIL Research has lowered its execution forecast for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) projects for fiscal 2019 to 3,600-3,800 km fro...

Tags: CRISIL Research, NHAI, HAM, EPC, Construction

NBFC Crisis – Is India’s real estate on Tenterhooks?

December 2018

It may be true that ‘when the going gets tough, the tough gets going,’ but this doesn’t hold true for the Indian real estate sector currently. The on...

Tags: NBFC crisis, HFCs, Credit Suisse report, IL&FS, DHFL, ANAROCK data, Homebuyers, Puravankara, DLF, Prestige Group, Oberoi Realty, Shobhit Agarwal

HAM in a Jam: Construction of at least 800 km highways could be at risk this fiscal

December 2018

CRISIL Research has lowered its execution forecast in National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) projects for fiscal 2019 to 3,600-3,800 km from ear...

Tags: CRISIL Research, NHAI, EPC, BOT

Incredible infrastructure

October 2018

By fiscal year 2023, India will be looking at a whopping investment requirement of Rs 38.6 trillion in the infrastructure sector. Over a period of ti...

Tags: Infrastructure, PPP, CRISIL Infrastructure Yearbook, PPI, World Bank, NHAI, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, AURIC, IITGNL, Sagarmala programme, DPR, Smart City Mission, MoRTH, Setu Bharatam, HAM

The Bailout Plan

October 2018

Is the Indian Railways chugging towards a gargantuan bailout? Startling as it may sound, the question is within the realms of plausibility given the ...

Tags: Indian Railways, CAGR, Seventh Pay Commission, IRFC, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Asian Development Bank, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, Infrastructure, Technology, IT systems, Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, RITES, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan

A Ray of Hope, Amid the Gloom

October 2018

Amidst the chaos seen in the power sector, with 22,000 MW thermal power projects lying idle for the need of coal or gas and lenders taking power gene...

Tags: NCLT, Transmission, Coal, Gas, Power, Thermal power projects, ISTS, Green energy corridors, REMC, Standing Committee, Energy, Transmission, Raj Prabhu, Mercom Capital Group, Saubhagya Scheme

Public Spending: Can the Government keep up the Tempo?

October 2018

Resumption and broad-basing of private investments has become critical to sustain the share of infrastructure investments....

Tags: Infrastructure, Investments, GDP, CRISIL, GST, PPPs, 15th Annual Edition, UK National Infrastructure Commission