We have brought down civil structure approvals from nine months to one day

May 2018

One, we have come out with our industrial policy, where some features are unique compared to any other policy in the country; we are the only state i...

Tags: Jayesh Ranjan, Government of Telangana, Digital Telangana, T-Fibre, Mission Bhagiratha, Water pipelines, PPP, Niti Aayog, RAHUL KAMAT

Multimodal transport plan will reset India's logistics sector

March 2018

Nandan Yalgi, Managing Director, Boxco Logistics India Pvt Ltd, lauds the efforts of the Ministry of Shipping in launching port-led development proje...

Tags: Nandan Yalgi, Boxco Logistics India Pvt Ltd, Nitin Gadkari, IPRCL, Eastern, Western Dedicated Freight Corridors, PPP, Adani, JSW, JM Baxi Group, Rahul Kamat, Ports, Ministry of Shipping, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, IPRCL

Sagarmala can save upto Rs.40,000 cr per year on logistics spends

March 2018

The Union Budget of 2017-18 has laid a 25 per cent increase in allocations for infrastructure over last year. There has also been a renewed focus on ...

Tags: Union Budget of 2017-18, GST, Sagarmala project, Port, Bharatmala project, JNPT, Rahul Kamat, Ministry of Shipping, Prakash Tulsiani, Allcargo Logistics Ltd, Shipping, Logistics sector

There is no dearth of funds in the solar sector

March 2018

KS Popli, Chairman and Managing Director, India Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) maintains his calm even when he encounters tough question...

Tags: KS Popli, IREDA, Solar tariff, MNRE, MoU, Rahul Kamat

DMICDC has the required land in possession for Phase 1

March 2018

Planning and implementing a project of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor stature is not everyone's cup of tea. But, Alkesh Sharma, CEO and MD, Del...

Tags: Alkesh Sharma, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, Neemrana Solar Power Project, DMICDC, NEDO, Solar power plant, RIICO, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd, NVVNL, SPV, GNIDA, NCR, MoEF&CC, AITL, JPMIA

We have awarded Rs.7.50 lakh crore projects in three years

March 2018

We are planning to raise Rs 2.9 lakh crore from the equity market, Rs 1.06 lakh crore from private investments and Rs 2.19 lakh crore from Central Ro...

Tags: Central Road Funds, TOT, NHAI, MoRTH, Port sector, Inland waterways, Sagarmala project, JNPT, Ro-Ro services, DPR, Rahul Kamat

We need more govt involvement to start stuck projects

March 2018

If you look at the current state of power generation projects in India, we have around 40-45 GW of stranded capacity. Of this, around 10-15 GW of cap...

Tags: Power generation projects, R Venkataraman, Greenfield power projects, NHAI, IPP, PPA, Rahul Kamat

By 2025, we will have 250 km of metro network in Karnataka

March 2018

The project is progressing well. Currently, we are operating North-South and East-West that span over 42.8 km with a ridership of more than four lakh...

Tags: Mahendra Jain, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation, Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, BMTC, BMRC, Rahul kamat