About 53 per cent of awarded projects in FY2017 made through HAM as compared to 8 per cent in FY2016

August 2017

The Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) garnered a favourable response from both the EPC and the BOT players with intense competition till January 2017. HAM h...

Tags: Hybrid Annuity Model, NHAI, EPC, BOT, BPC, HAM, ICRA

Infra-vestment | Follow the Money

January 2017

India will need $1.5 trillion of investment in infrastructure over the next 10 years. Of this nearly $10 billion is required in sewage treatment plan...

Tags: Infrastructure Projects, Arun Lakhani, Vishvaraj Infrastructure, Hybrid Annuity Model, Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infra, PPP, Narendra Modi, Vijay Kelkar Committee Report, SEBI, REIT, InVIts, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Sterlite Power Grid, Infrastructure Leasing

Work is required on a speedy dispute resolution system

November 2016

U nless the private sector is able to see a good return on investment and stability in the schemes proposed by the government, it would be difficult ...

Tags: Anand Pattani, Black & Veatch Private Limited, Infrastructure Projects, Bankruptcy Code, EPC, Hybrid Annuity Models

Is infrastructure´s golden goose on the chopping block

November 2016

The PPP way of creating infrastructure in India has waned. Things got compounded by inherent risks that were stacked up upon the private sector, resu...

Tags: Infra Projects, HAM, Hybrid Annuity Models, Noida Toll Bridge Company, NTBC, Centrum Infrastructure Advisory Ltd, Sandeep Upadhyay, Infosys, Delhi, Gurgaon, Highway Project, Pratap Padode, GMR, ASAPP Info Global Group

Country Roads, City Roads, and the Roads in between

September 2016

Many of us know that the celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes famously said that (in times of slowdown) the government should pay people to dig h...

Tags: John Maynard Keynes, Infrastructure, Building, Road Transport, Mr Gadkari, Hybrid Annuity Model, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, PMGSY

Competition Picks Up in HAM

September 2016

Macro developments suggest positive trends in the road sector with pickup in execution. Recent bids under the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) in May-June ...

Tags: Macro Developments, Road, Hybrid Annuity Model, HAM, Ashok Leyland, JCB, National Highways Authority of India, NHAI, Life Insurance Corporation of India, LIC, Employees´ Provident Fund Organisation, EPFO, Ashoka Buildcon, Special Purpose Vehicles

Implications on infrastructure

March 2016

The amount of Rs.800 cr budgeted for ports and inland waterways appears to be below the potential of these sectors. The Union Budget 2016-17 lists in...

Tags: Ports, Inland Waterways, Infrastructure, Sagarmala Programme, Smart Cities, Amrut, Hybrid Annuity Model, National Highways, Roads, Railways, Airports, Housing, NHAI, REITs, PPP Projects

Picking Up Pace

February 2016

After a slew of reforms, the roads and highways sector is gradually stepping it up again. Up until a year ago, progress in road construction had beco...

Tags: Highways, Road, Construction, BOT Projects, Hybrid Annuity Model, National Highways Authority of India, NHAI, PPP Project, Arun Karambelkar, HCC, EPC Road Projects, Raghav Chandra, Ramesh Palagiri, Wirtgen India Pvt Ltd, Shalabh Chaturvedi