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

Need For Speed

July 2018

For the ambitious plan of overhauling one of the world’s biggest transporters of men and materials, both the government and private sector need to de...

Tags: Piyush Goyal, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, Sanjeev Gupta, KRCL, Mangal Dev, Hitachi Rail Systems Co, Sanjeev Kumar Lohia, IRSDCL, Rajeev Mehrotra, RITES

“Targeted pricing will help railways maximise earnings”

July 2018

In this extensive interview to INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, he says that it is entirely up to the Railways on how it would like to leverage its unique posit...

Tags: Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, DFCs, MRVC, UIDAI, Rajdhani, Unique Identification Authority India

India's Metro Trail

March 2018

The total length of operational metro projects in India presently stands at about 440 km and is growing. Cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, ...

Tags: Metro rail, NCR, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, NDA, MRTS, CoMET, MoHUA, JICA, EIB, Werner Hoyer, PPP, K Ravichandran, ICRA, DMRC

BHARATMALA: Beyond Connecting Roads

January 2018

October 2017 witnessed the largest ever outlay of road construction in India: Bharatmala. The programme involves around 83,000 km - including the fir...

Tags: Bharatmala, Road construction, Shubham Jain, ICRA, NHDP, Kelkar Committee, PPP framework, Rajat Gupta, McKinsey & Company, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Sudhir Hoshing, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Vinayak K Deshpande

Opening the funds tap

October 2015

A stronger thrust on PPP projects, greater FDI and steady government support can help Indian Railways, one of the world´s largest rail networks, emer...

Tags: PPP projects, FDI, Indian Railways, Highway Projects, Roads, Power, Steel, Cement, Make in India, Konkan Railway Corporation, Pipavav Railway Corporation, Pipavav Port, Hassan-Mangalore Rail Development Company, JSW Group, Japan International Cooperation Agency