Ambitious Target

March 2018

The initiatives that will have a direct bearing on the pace of execution include awarding projects after securing 80 per cent right of way, expeditin...

Tags: Bearing, ROB, RUB, MoRTH, EPC mode, CRF, GBS, Shubham Jain, ICRA Ltd, Bharatmala Pariyojana, RFCTLARR, NHDP, NHAI, IECV, EPC

Traction Ahead!

March 2018

The Railways has sizeable capex plans for the five year period 2015-19 involving a capital outlay of Rs.8.56 trillion. The annual capital outlay for ...

Tags: Railways, NITI Aayog, DFC, HSR, PPP, IRFC, LIC, JICA, WDFC, EDFC, EPC, Tata Group, GMR Group, IRSDC, NHSRC

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

Here's tracking opportunities and upcoming tenders in India's Smart Cities

March 2018

The numbers speak for themselves. A total investment of Rs 191,155 crore has been proposed by 90 cities under their smart city plans....

Tags: Investment, Smart city plans, Smart Cities Council India, Pratap Padode, D Chowdhury, Gaia Smart Cities, Smart Cities Mission, Grant Thornton India LLP, RFP, ICC, SPV, Suresh Subudhi, LED projects, Swachh Bharat Mission, Discoms

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

Greenfield cities are overcoming and succeeding challenges on the smart run

March 2018

While there is a set of 100 Smart Cities under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) mission, there is also the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (...

Tags: 100 Smart Cities, MoUD, Department of Commerce, AECOM, Jagdish Salgaonkar, Alkesh Sharma, DMICDC, SPV

IRB Infra’s SPV achieves financial closure for six-laning of 90 km on Kishangarh-Gulabpura stretch of NH-79

February 2018

KG Tollway, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of IRB Infrastructure Developers, has successfully achieved financial closure for its Rs 1,526 crore BOT ...

Tags: KG Tollway, SPV, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Virendra D Mhaiskar, NHAI

Prestige Group acquires stakes worth Rs.324 crore

February 2018

Prestige Group, through its subsidiary, has concluded acquisition of CapitaLand's stake in various SPVs for a total of about Rs 324 crore. The acquis...

Tags: Prestige Group, CapitaLand, Oakwood, SPV