GVK Mumbai International Airport bags Navi Mumbai Airport Project from CIDCO

November 2017

The GVK-led Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) was handed over the Letter of Award (LOA) from CIDCO, the nodal agency of the Government of Maharasht...

Tags: MIAL, GVK, Government of Maharashtra, Navi Mumbai International Airport, CIDCO, Dr GVK Reddy, PPP, Greenfield airport

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

Crane Solutions

November 2017

Metro Rail projects in India have seen phenomenal growth over the past few years. The success of the Delhi Metro as a rapid transit urban transportat...

Tags: ElectroMech crane solutions, PPP, Metro Rail construction, Pune Metro, Bangalore Metro projects, EPC, Gammon India, Soma Constructions, Kochi Metro project, Cranedge, Chennai Metro Project

Fast-Tracking Metro

November 2017

Perceived to be a constructive and good step forward, the Union Cabinet recently approved the Metro Rail Policy 2017 to enable realisation of growing...

Tags: Union Cabinet, Metro-Rail projects, PPP, Dr E Sreedharan, DMRC, Central Government, Abhishek Gupta, BARSYL, Sunil Srivastava, EPC projects, Afcons, NCC, IL&FS Group, ITNL, IECCL

India continues to be one of our important sources of FDI

November 2017

This year is a landmark for Malaysia for more than one reason. It marks both the 60th year of Malaysian independence and the 60th year of formal Indi...

Tags: Mazlan Harun, PIO, AIFTA, ASEAN, MICECA, RCEP, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Malaysian Grading Rules, MDF, Burj Khalifa, IRCON, Reliance Group, Biocon, Ranbaxy, JG Containers

Key Connection

November 2017

Improved connectivity, safety and economic prosperity in four districts - that's what the Kaithal-Rajasthan border highway project will bring to the ...

Tags: KTPL, SPV, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Sudhir Rao, DBFOT, PPP, NHAI, BOT, EPC, MoRTH, IRC, EIA

We need global capital for India's infrastructure projects

November 2017

Until recently, we used to talk about the cost of funds being too high and, as you are aware, some infrastructure projects have a long gestation peri...

Tags: Sanjeev Kaushik, IIFCL, Infrastructure, IFCI, PPP, Narendra Modi, REIT, InvIT, IDF, NIIF, Manish Pant

Where is the Money?

November 2017

Policy actions to revive stalled projects, expedite approvals, introduce hybrid annuity and toll-operate-transfer (TOT) models in highways, and susta...

Tags: Renewable capacity, Infrastructure, GDP, Power, Roads, Telecom, Irrigation and Railways, TOT, Saubhagya scheme, CRISIL, Vivek Sharma, Anand Madhavan, Commercial bank, RBI, Vinayak Chatterjee