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

12-13 per cent equity IRR seen for first bundle of TOT highways

December 2017

The equity IRR (internal rate of return) of the first bundle of highways being auctioned under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model would range betw...

Tags: IRR, NHAI, CRISIL Research, Prasad Koparkar, Binaifer Jehani

Rs 17.50 crore for repairing Karkala, Mangaluru road

December 2017

The Union Government has reportedly released Rs 17.50 crore for repairing NH-169 between Karkala and Kulashekara, Mangaluru....

Tags: Union Government, NHAI

NHAI to acquire land for road widening

December 2017

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a notification to acquire around 16 acres for the widening of NH-21. As per reports, altho...

Tags: NHAI, Road widening, Kharar flyover

NHAI reforms lead to steep decline in high-risk highway projects

December 2017

The proportion of under-construction, high-risk highway projects has reduced significantly from 53 per cent two years back to 21 per cent now after a...

Tags: Under-construction, NHAI, BOT, Sachin Gupta, CRISIL Ratings, HAM, Bharatmala project, Sushmita Majumdar

IRB Infra’s SPV receives Appointed Date from NHAI

November 2017

CG Tollway Private Ltd., a wholly-owned Subsidiary and a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd., has received Appointed ...

Tags: CG Tollway Private Ltd, SPV, IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd, NHAI, Virendra D. Mhaiskar, IRB InvIT

NHAI’s newly launched app and website to track and rate highway projects

November 2017

Keeping in mind the government’s thrust towards digitisation, NHAI has recently launched a smartphone application that will enable travellers to rate...

Tags: Digitisation, NHAI, National highways, Deepak Kumar, PMIS, PPP projects

IRB Infra’s SPV achieves financial closure for six-laning of Chittorgarh-Gulabpura Bypass on NH-79

November 2017

CG Tollway, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of IRB Infrastructure Developers has successfully achieved financial closure for its BOT project of six-l...

Tags: CG Tollway, SPV, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Virendra D. Mhaiskar, NHAI, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Canara Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Andhra Bank, Aditya Birla Finance