What will be your Biggest Investment in 2018?

January 2018

2017 saw a paradigm shift in how India invests its money. While still reeling under the impact of demonetisation, the year saw an introduction of maj...

Tags: Biggest Investment, RERA, GST, Benami Transactions Bill, Demonetisation, IT, Commercial sector, Private equity, Real estate, Ramesh Nair, JLL India

Smart City plan at snail pace; only 5 per cent of total projects completed

January 2018

Almost three years after the announcement of the government's ambitious Smart City mission, only around 5 per cent of the total projects have been c...

Tags: Smart City Mission, Smart Cities, NDMC, Investment, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

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

Central Government planning to decongest the national capital

January 2018

As reported, massive projects worth an investment of Rs 31,930 crore are in the pipleline to decongest New Delhi. These include developing the Dwarka...

Tags: Investment, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, MoRTH, Construction, Central Government

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

Engineering and development are essential

January 2018

The sector that has been getting the largest investment is the roads sector. However, we need a holistic view of growth and development in infrastruc...

Tags: Investment, MB India, Piero Guizzetti, Smart City programme, Excavator, Machine, Bucket crusher, Water treatment, Solid waste treatment

Decoding Digital India

January 2018

In what should have been a major story that was buried under other headlines, India achieved a significant milestone in its Digital India programme w...

Tags: Digital India, Fibre network, BharatNet, FTTH, Wi-Fi, Fibre, CSC, Ravi Shankar Prasad, ASEAN-India Business, Investment Meet and Expo, Skill India, Start-up India, Smart Cities programmes, KK Shetty, Citadel Intelligent Systems Pvt. Ltd

ENFORCEMENT OF CONTRACTS Mitigating the Uncertainty

January 2018

There is a silver lining here: For the past two years, the Modi government has been adopting a broad strategy to substantially improve India's dismal...

Tags: Winter Session of the Parliament, Infrastructure contracts, Construction of residential, Commercial buildings, Adhunik Steels Ltd, Orissa Manganese Minerals (P) Ltd, MRTS, Limited Liability Partnership, Special Courts, Infrastructure projects, Department of Economic Affairs, Nishikant Deshpande, ADR Savvy, Investments