Gujarat floats Rs 700 crore slum redevelopment fund

September 2016

The Gujarat Government has floated a Slum Redevelopment Premium Fund (SRPF) with an initial corpus of Rs 700 crore. This fund from the Central and st...

Tags: Gujarat Government, Slum Redevelopment Premium Fund, Funding affordable housing projects, Central Government, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Vadodara, Ashwani Kumar, FSI, GSFS

Single-largest debt transaction in real estate funding | Piramal Fund invests Rs 2,320 crore in projects of Lodha Group

September 2016

In what is known to be the single-largest debt transaction to take place in the real estate funding space, Piramal Fund Management has invested Rs 2,...

Tags: Real estate funding space, Piramal Fund Management, Lodha Group, Lodha Venezia, Construction

I call it the 4-P model where the fourth P stands for people

May 2016

It is yet to emerge as an organised sector in comparison to the other sectors where you have model concession agreements. The bankers are also very f...

Tags: Arun Lakhani, Vishvaraj Infrastructure, Ganga programme, Swiss Challenge model, ULB, Cross-subsidisation, Pressurised water system, Infrastructure, ADB funding, Drinking water, Sewage treatment, Smart Cities programme, Rouhan Sharma

Govt to work on rural transport

March 2016

The Centre plans a comprehensive rural transport system to complement two decades of building a web of roads in the countryside through an ambitious ...

Tags: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna, PMGSY, Viability Gap Funding, Rural Transport

Motilal Oswal to invest in real estate funding

December 2015

Motilal Oswal is planning to diversify into new areas such as real estate funding. The company will use its new Rs 1,000 crore real estate fund to in...

Tags: Motilal Oswal, Real Estate Funding, Housing Segment, Affordable Housing Segment, Traditional, Brokerage, Management, Housing Finance

Highway projects still under execution risks

November 2015

A Crisil analysis of 92 highway projects being constructed under the build, operate, transfer (BOT) model shows that around half of them are facing i...

Tags: Crisil, Highway Projects, Under Construction, BOT, Equity Infusion, Funding Cost

Laying Strong Foundation

September 2015

India´s drive for infrastructure development has already commenced resulting in increased usage of foundation equipment. Their demand is expected to ...

Tags: Infrastructure Development, Hydraulic Piling Rigs, Hydraulic Hammer, ICH Hydro Hammer, Wind Turbine Projects, ITD, Gammon, L&T, National Funding Plan, Niche Projects, Dieseko Group BV, ICE, BSP International Foundations Ltd, IHC Hydrohammer, BUMA CE Co. Ltd

Tracking Railways´ Performance

August 2015

Indian Railways has long been groaning under its own weight. How much longer will it be before the government can turn things around? Indian Railways...

Tags: Indian Railways, Tracking Railways, SGR, CAGR, NTKM, Lacklustre Performance, Viability Gap Funding, Kamal Nayan Srivastava