WELSPUN ENTERPRISES

September 2018

Formerly known as Welspun Projects, Welspun Enterprises is part of the Welspun Group. Pursuant to a scheme of arrangement and amalgamation, the erstw...

Tags: Welspun Projects, Welspun Enterprises, Welspun Plastics, Welspun Infra Projects, PPP projects, Infrastructure

Will funding projects through PPP or floating bonds be the ideal way to raise the required money to build smart?

March 2018

Smart cities have been provided some seed money from the Centre and the state, with some to be generated from their own budget. But the financial req...

Tags: APUIAML, JV, IL&FS Group, Prakash Gaur, Urban Infrastructure Asset Management, APUDF, FSI, PPP projects, SPV, LED lights, Ajay Saxena, Ravinder Reddy, Grant Thornton India LLP, Smart city plan

Finance Minister chaired body to decide fate of stalled port projects

January 2018

As reported, a high profile committee chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will be looking into the stalled shipping projects worth around Rs 20,...

Tags: Niti Aayog, Arun Jaitley, MCA, Investments, TAMP, PPP projects

Cabinet approves amendments for PPP projects at Major Ports to usher in more private participation: ICRA

January 2018

The Union Cabinet has approved certain amendments to the existing Model Concession Agreement (MCA) for PPP projects at the Major Ports, which will ad...

Tags: Union Cabinet, PPP projects, MCA, Sagarmala programme, TAMP, SAROD-PORTS, K Ravichandran, ICRA, Investments, Major Ports

NHAI’s newly launched app and website to track and rate highway projects

November 2017

Keeping in mind the government’s thrust towards digitisation, NHAI has recently launched a smartphone application that will enable travellers to rate...

Tags: Digitisation, NHAI, National highways, Deepak Kumar, PMIS, PPP projects

Indian Private Equity takes off!

May 2017

Private Equity (PE) in India is still in its nascent stage, accounting for roughly 1 per cent of GDP. This is in contrast to almost 3 per cent in the...

Tags: Private Equity, GDP, MAHESH SINGHI, Energy, Retail, Infrastructure, Generation, Distribution, Transmission, Equipment, PSU, Renewables, Highways, Railway PPP projects, PE investments

Traction in Inland Waterway projects will open up several business opportunities for the port sector players

March 2017

Traction in Inland Waterway projects will open up several business opportunities for the port sector players As per an ICRA Report on the Indian Port...

Tags: Traction, ICRA Report, Ports Sector, MCA, Sagarmala project, MoS, Jal Vikas Marg project, IPPTA, PPP projects, Coal, Fertilisers

In the HAM of a Dilemma

March 2017

Just as with PPP projects, HAM contracts too are finding financial closure to be a challenge. Banks, especially, are wary of putting their money on d...

Tags: HAM, PPP projects, BOT, EPC, NHAI, MCA, MoRTH, Warns Srishti Ahuja, Sanjeev Kaushik, IIFCL, IFCI, Nitin Gadkari, PPP, MANISH PANT