Three new DFCs to be announced soon

September 2016

Come this October, the Ministry of Railways is likely to announce three new Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFCs) for swift transportation of freight mo...

Tags: Ministry of Railways, Swift transportation, Railway Board, DFC, East Coast, GVL Satyakumar, Scrutinising, Rahul Kamat

Volatile fuel prices will reduce reliance on conventional fuels

September 2016

Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has announced big investments in India´s ports and roads sector. These investments...

Tags: Shipping, Road Transport, Highways, Nitin Gadkari, Infrastructure, Sagarmala, Cargotec India Pvt Ltd, Praveen Waychal, Road sector, Kalmar, LNG, Global Services of Italy, Reachstacker, Kalmar K-Motion, RAHUL KAMAT

Turnaround time in Indian major ports is a matter of concern

September 2016

The current cargo handling capacity of Essar Ports is 150 MTPA. Essar Ports specialises in development and operations of ports and terminals for hand...

Tags: Essar Ports, Cargo handling, Rajiv Agarwal, Hazira, Vadinar, Salaya, Paradip, Visakhapatnam, SPM, Subsea pipelines, Ship loaders, Unloaders, Conveyor systems Pipelines, Stacker, Reclaimer

We are deploying projects worth over Rs.10,000 crore in Rajasthan

August 2016

Being one of the leading states in implementing schemes backed by the Centre, Rajasthan is always in the forefront, whether it is for energy efficien...

Tags: Dr Manjit Singh, Government of Rajasthan, Urban Infrastructure, AMRUT, Swachh Bharat Mission, Smart City Mission, Atal Mission, HRIDAY, National Urban Livelihood Mission, ULB, NOC, GIS, IHSDP, BSUP, EOI

We are mechanising all our mines for better turnaround time

August 2016

The Ministry of Coal (MoC) is targeting coal production of 1.5 billion tonnes. Of this one billion tonnes will come from Coal India Limited (CIL) and...

Tags: INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Anil Swarup, Ministry of Coal, Government of India, MoC, CIL, JV, Ircon, Supreme Court, Coal, SLC, RAHUL KAMAT

Monitoring contractual obligations is the next big thing for India

August 2016

Indeed. From the mid-1990s, where we started with private sector involvement with power generation, and subsequently into mobile telephony and transp...

Tags: PPP, C P Nair, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, PFI, CCI, NIIF, MoI, RAHUL KAMAT

The Great PPP Conundrum

August 2016

The fast growth of the Indian economy in recent years has placed increasing stress on physical infrastructure, such as electricity, railways, roads, ...

Tags: PPP, Electricity, Railways, Roads, Ports, Airports, Irrigation, Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infrastructure, 12 CONCOR trains, SEZ, GMR Infra, Rohit Chandak, Uniquest Infra Ventures Pvt Ltd, BOT

We will construct around 10,000 housing units in a phased manner

May 2016

Termed as a single revenue source corporation, Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is leaving no stone unturned to fund the city's planned infrastruc...

Tags: LMC, Infrastructure, Udayraj Singh, RAHUL KAMAT, Commercial, Budget, JNNURM, Swachh Bharat, Swachh Bharat Mission, LED, Energy Efficiency Services Scheme of the Central Government, ESCO, Bharwara sewage treatment plant, Smart city, AMRUT Yojna