TOT would enable more assets recycling

March 2018

The recent TOT bids have shown that this model can be ideal for international institutional investors who have appetite for long-term investments and...

Tags: TOT bids, NHAI, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Network, PPP, EPC, Bhartmala project, Infrastructure, PPP, EPC, NIIF

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

Infrastructure assets provide better risk returns

November 2017

If the Indian economy needs to sustain its growth momentum in the coming decade, developing world-class infrastructure facilities is of paramount imp...

Tags: Infrastructure, Provident Fund, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Network, Greenfield infrastructure projects, Commercial bank, InvIT, Fair Market Value, TOT, Chicago Skyway, Indiana Toll Road, EPC, Bhartmala project, Rahul Kamat

Where is the Money?

November 2017

Policy actions to revive stalled projects, expedite approvals, introduce hybrid annuity and toll-operate-transfer (TOT) models in highways, and susta...

Tags: Renewable capacity, Infrastructure, GDP, Power, Roads, Telecom, Irrigation and Railways, TOT, Saubhagya scheme, CRISIL, Vivek Sharma, Anand Madhavan, Commercial bank, RBI, Vinayak Chatterjee