Attitude for altitude

October 2018

Beginning its operations in 2002, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation now has a route length of 296 km, making it the 12th longest and 16th largest in daily...

Tags: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, E Sreedharan, Dr Mangu Singh, Transportation, ICICI, IL&FS, Satyam scam, LIC, ICF, EEPC, NHBF, CIDC, BAI

Mumbai Nagpur Expressway faces objection from construction companies to bid terms. Here’s why!

June 2017

The Maharashtra Government’s ambitious Rs 27,650 crore Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway project is facing objection from highway developers regarding the lat...

Tags: Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway project, MSRDC, CDR, SDR, NHBF, RFQ

Cash Crunch

January 2017

Still recovering from the ´zero toll´ period during the demonetisation rollout, many infra players are waiting for cash compensation from the governm...

Tags: Demonetisation, Zero toll, NHBF, O AND M costs, NPA, Infra Sector

At a glimpse...

June 2016

The fourth edition of Concrete Show India 2016 saw over 150 Indian and global suppliers and manufacturers from various industries under one roof in M...

Tags: Concrete Show India 2016, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, GERMI, MoU, HSIL Ltd, APM Terminals Pipavav, M Murali, NHBF

3rd Annual Equipment India Awards & CEO FORUM

April 2016

The evening of March 16, 2016 was a matter of pride for EQUIPMENT INDIA as a large number of stakeholders from the construction equipment (CE) commun...

Tags: EQUIPMENT INDIA, FICCI, Construction Equipment, 3rd Annual Equipment India Awards, Devendra Jain, Samir Bansal, Sanjeev Kathpalia, Sameer Malhotra, Dilip Buildcon, Minister of Republic of Turkey, Shriram Automall India Ltd, NHBF, Pratap Padode, Fuel Infra, Vijay Sharma

Roads - Highway to Growth

December 2015

M Murali examines the key developments in the Indian roads sector and the huge potential to take the sector to a brighter 2016. India has the second ...

Tags: M Murali, Indian Roads Sector, National Highways Development Project, NHDP, Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in North East, SARDP-NE, Left Wing Extremism, LWE, Highway Projects, Bharatmala Pariyojana, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA, Ministry of Road Transports and Highways, MORTH, Road Projects

Finding the Right Road

December 2015

The moot question is whether good intent has been accompanied by careful planning. It was always going to be a difficult job. Roads development, bat...

Tags: Roads, PPP, Roads Transport Ministry, Highways, HAM, MCA, NHBF, Hit by the HAMmer, Solan-Kaithalighat, Rohit Kumar Singh, Guruprasad Iyer, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, Meerut, Sudhir Rao Hoshing, IRB Infrastructure

In this regime, roads have taken a quantum leap

December 2015

The government is taking only the EPC cost as the DPR cost. They are not adding other things like interest on annuity or the interest difference when...

Tags: EPC, DPR, Sunil Hitech Engineers Ltd, C Venkataramana, Construction, RBI, NPA, NHBF, Comment, MoRTH, World Bank, ADB, Technology, Roads