Technology Meets Opportunity

April 2018

Rs 1.2 trillion investment in roads and highways; extension of 3.17 lakh km of rural roads; 35,000 km highway construction under Bharatmala Pariyojan...

Tags: Investment, Bharatmala Pariyojana scheme, Raj Shrivastav, Crushing, Screening, HMAP, TIL, SP Rajan, Plant, Machinery, Roads, Runways, Elevated Corridors, Ajay Tripathi, Nilang Asphalt Equipments

The Big Infra Opportunity

March 2018

Stakeholders harp on the government's infrastructure push and expect construction orders of Rs.18 trillion in the next six years. This order inflow v...

Tags: Stakeholders harp, Infrastructure, CPSEs, Vivek Sharma, Anand Madhavan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, PPP, CAGR, PWD, Bharatmala, CAGR, Smart Cities, Housing for All, NHAI, Railway electrification

Powerful moves ahead!

March 2018

Infrastructure Today has completed yet another milestone with over 14 years of coverage on a sector which can make or break the India development sto...

Tags: Infrastructure Today, NHAI, Canada Pension Plan, L&T, Tata Projects, Bharatmala, Sagarmala, UDAAN, RERA, NSEW corridor

Funding Not a Constraint for Road Building Programmes

March 2018

In an exclusive interview to INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Debjani Chakrabarti, Director Highways, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) elucidates s...

Tags: Debjani Chakrabarti, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Roads building programme, EPFO, LIC, PPP, BOT, Hybrid Annuity Mode, EPC, NHDP, PCU, Construction, NHIDCL, NHAI, NIIF

Ambitious Target

March 2018

The initiatives that will have a direct bearing on the pace of execution include awarding projects after securing 80 per cent right of way, expeditin...

Tags: Bearing, ROB, RUB, MoRTH, EPC mode, CRF, GBS, Shubham Jain, ICRA Ltd, Bharatmala Pariyojana, RFCTLARR, NHDP, NHAI, IECV, EPC

We have awarded Rs.7.50 lakh crore projects in three years

March 2018

We are planning to raise Rs 2.9 lakh crore from the equity market, Rs 1.06 lakh crore from private investments and Rs 2.19 lakh crore from Central Ro...

Tags: Central Road Funds, TOT, NHAI, MoRTH, Port sector, Inland waterways, Sagarmala project, JNPT, Ro-Ro services, DPR, Rahul Kamat

We need more govt involvement to start stuck projects

March 2018

If you look at the current state of power generation projects in India, we have around 40-45 GW of stranded capacity. Of this, around 10-15 GW of cap...

Tags: Power generation projects, R Venkataraman, Greenfield power projects, NHAI, IPP, PPA, Rahul Kamat

Roads on a Hot Streak

March 2018

Sustained government thrust through policy changes, investments and proactive addressing of nagging issues, has placed the roads sector in what could...

Tags: NHAI, HAM, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, BOT, Construction, PPP, TOT, Binaifer F Jehani, CRISIL Research