Urban Infrastructure | Business or Welfare?

July 2016

Urban infrastructure is complex business. Rarely have we built any major world class infrastructure in our cities, which have had a good sustainable ...

Tags: Urban infrastructure, Investment, Kolkata Metro to Delhi Metro, Namma Metro of Bangalore, Mumbai Metro Line One, Sewri Nhava Sheva Sea Link, Metro lines, Public Partnerships, Aalborg University, Construction, Smart Cities, Value Capture Financing, O And M services

METRONOMICS

July 2016

The experience left the planners wiser. And this was evident in the 65 kilometres of the first phase of the ambitious Delhi Metro Project getting com...

Tags: Urban infra projects, Metro rail projects, Kolkata Metro, Manish Agarwal, Infrastructure, PwC India, Urban Planning Consultant Bharat Singh, MRTS, Transportation, Road Research Laboratory, World Bank, Aalborg University, BRT, OLA, UBER

METRONOMICS

July 2016

The experience left the planners wiser. And this was evident in the 65 kilometres of the first phase of the ambitious Delhi Metro Project getting com...

Tags: Urban infra projects, Metro rail projects, Kolkata Metro, Manish Agarwal, Infrastructure, PwC India, Urban Planning Consultant Bharat Singh, MRTS, Transportation, Road Research Laboratory, World Bank, Aalborg University, BRT, OLA, UBER

Kolkata Port Trust lines up projects

June 2016

Kolkata Port Trust is embarking on seven key projects amounting to Rs 1,256 crore in the current financial year to up its tonnage handling capacity a...

Tags: Kolkata Port Trust, Tonnage handling capacity, Cargo handling capabilities, PPP, Port

Kolkata Port Trust operational surplus at Rs 603 cr in FY16

May 2016

Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has announced a 28.58 per cent rise in operational surplus at Rs.603.65 crore for 2015-16. ...

Tags: Kolkata Port Trust, KoPT, M T Krishna Babu

Railway on Overdrive

May 2016

While all the pressure to build a railway network in India in the mid-nineteenth century came from London, it is well into the 21st century that pres...

Tags: Railway, Great Depression, Passengers, British-India Railways, SNCF, French National Railway, Kolkata Metro, Gatimaan Express, Trans-Siberian Railway, Liberalisation, ICF, RCF, Linke Hoffmann-Busch, Vulcans, CLW

We have constructed almost half of all the new lines that were laid last year

May 2016

There are basically two kinds of projects. One is the greenfield projects where we are going to construct an absolutely new line. The other type is w...

Tags: Mukul Jain, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, Solar energy, Water harvesting, Rishikesh, Karanprayag, Kolkata Metro, Vivekananda flyover, Railway, Pamban bridge, Clover Bridge, RDSO, Infrastructure, Safety, Construction

Schindler will continue to grow at a rate faster than the market.

April 2016

We move over 1 billion people per day,¨ claims the company with pride. Indeed, founded in 1874 in Switzerland, Schindler manufacturers, installs, ser...

Tags: Antony Parokaran, Schindler India, Elevator, Bombay Stock Exchange, Housing for All, Housing Projects, MRL, Escalators, Mumbai International Airport T2, Chennai Airport, Kolkata Airport, Mumbai Metro, Mumbai Monorail, Commercial, Retail Projects