Kochi SmartCity plans three more project phases

March 2018

Smart City Kochi, a flagship IT township project originally conceived as a JV between the Kerala Government and Dubai-based Tecom Investments, has go...

Tags: Smart City Kochi, Tecom Investments, Smart City plan, Infrastructure, IT parks, Investment

Macquarie-Ashoka bags TOT projects for Rs 97 billion

March 2018

A JV of Macquarie and Ashoka Buildcon has emerged the highest bidder for the Centre’s first batch of toll-operate-transfer (TOT) projects. The compan...

Tags: JV, Ashoka Buildcon, NHAI, Brookfield Asset Management, Macquarie-Ashoka Buildcon, IRB Infrastructure, Roadis-NIIF, EPC, BOT

Sewage management projects worth Rs 1,024.5 crore under execution in Uttarakhand

March 2018

Cities such as Haridwar and Rishikesh are expected to have a 100 per cent sewage treatment facility as sewage management interventions in Uttarakhand...

Tags: Sewage management projects, STP, I&D, Namami Gange programme, Infrastructure

Highways to Life – Housing on Mumbai’s Western Express Highway

March 2018

The lifeline of Mumbai has always been the suburban train network with local trains supporting more than 7.5 million commuters daily. However, due to...

Tags: Suburban train network, Western Express Highway, Metro Line, SRA projects, Oberoi Sky City, robust social infrastructure, SEEPZ, MIDC, Ashutosh Limaye

Budget 2018-19: Infrastructure, Rural Development key

March 2018

Infrastructure development has been one of the top priorities of the Union Budget 2018-19 presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in Parliamen...

Tags: Infrastructure development, Union Budget 2018-19, Arun Jaitely, Smart Cities mission, transport infrastructure, MSME sector, Abhijit Gupta, CASE India, PMGSY, Sandeep Singh, Tata Hitachi, Schwing Stetter India, Construction Machinery Co, ELGi Equipments, ZF India

Machine Control Technologies

March 2018

Monitoring and control technologies in infrastructure, construction and mining equipment has become one of the priorities in the industry these days ...

Tags: Infrastructure, Construction, Mining equipment, Harpreet Singh Wahan, Samip Desai, MOBA Mobile Automation India, Complete Machine Control, CAN bus technologies, Sensor asphalt pavers, OEM

Can Digital India have a major role to play in the smart cities mission? Find out!

March 2018

'The major support from Digital India to the Smart Cities mission has come in the form of Aadhaar,' says Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consult...

Tags: Digital India, Smart Cities mission, Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consultant, LED lights, PPP, Hitech telecom tower, MoUD, Infrastructure, Ministry of IT

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