Government reorganises road projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore

August 2017

The year 2016-17 saw a joint effort by the NHAI and MoRTH to reorganise nearly 88 per cent of road projects involving about Rs 1 lakh crore of invest...

Tags: NHAI, MoRTH, Investment, Public transportation, Vehicles carrying goods, Setu Bharatam programme

22 NHAI projects under HAM get financial closure

August 2017

Of the 43 projects awarded by NHAI, 22 have achieved financial closure as banks appear to be warming up to road projects under the hybrid annuity mod...

Tags: NHAI projects, HAM, Sadbhav Engineering, Nitin Gadkari, IIFCL, HDFC

About 53 per cent of awarded projects in FY2017 made through HAM as compared to 8 per cent in FY2016

August 2017

The Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) garnered a favourable response from both the EPC and the BOT players with intense competition till January 2017. HAM h...

Tags: Hybrid Annuity Model, NHAI, EPC, BOT, BPC, HAM, ICRA

Nagpur-Hyderabad-Bengaluru – At 1,100 km, world’s longest expressway planned at Rs 35,000 crore

August 2017

NHAI has awarded Feedback Infra, one of India’s leading infrastructure services companies, the task of preparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for ...

Tags: NHAI, DPR, Feedback Infra Highways IndVe SBU, Highways IndVe

PRIME THE PUMP

August 2017

Earlier in May, when I had asked Sajjan Jindal, chief of JSW - the group with the best appetite for capital investment - when the private sector woul...

Tags: Sajjan Jindal, JSW, Investment, GFCF, Piramal Group, Shriram Group, Ajay Piramal, CMIE, TOT, NHAI, L&T, GST

EXPRESS HARBINGER

August 2017

Under the leadership of its Chairman Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infra has bagged its largest-ever expressway mandate. NHAI has awarded the firm the...

Tags: Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infra, NHAI, Engineering, DPR

Foreign pension funds looking to invest in Indian highways

August 2017

The government is looking to raise support for investment in the highways sector; and reportedly according to experts, foreign pension funds would be...

Tags: Investment, Highways sector, NHAI, Economic Affairs, TOT model, Framework, Cabinet Committee, Cube Highways, RoI

Welspun Enterprises bets big in road sector, expands its portfolio

July 2017

Welspun Enterprises Ltd (WEL), a subsidiary of Welspun Group, will expand its operations in the infrastructure sector by acquiring two road projects ...

Tags: Welspun Enterprises Ltd, MBL Infrastructures Ltd, NHAI, HAM