Fast Tracking Road Safety Initiatives in Gujarat

July 2017

India accounted for more than 10 per cent of the global road accidents in 2015, with 146,000 fatalities and 480,000 injuries. Road accident deaths fa...

Tags: International Road Federation, Dr JN Singh, KK Kapila, ITS, Ravi Prasad, MoRTH, PPP

Good Intentions Pave The Highway Sector...

July 2017

With the Narendra Modi Government proposing to award Rs 500,000 crore worth of highway contracts in the last two years of its tenure, road constructi...

Tags: Narendra Modi, Tenure, Road construction, Apco Infratech, CRISIL Research, DPR, EPC project, HAM, BOT projects, PPP, NHIIP, TOT projects, Punj Lloyd Group, Charu Bahri, Advanced mixers

BIG Data The New Oil

July 2017

The ability to harness and store large volumes of data to enable future services and add extensions to current services to improve can only be achiev...

Tags: Clive Humby, Tesco Clubcard, Gautam Balakrishnan, Tata Projects, PPP, DMIC, Water, Wastewater, Recycled water, Storm water, Power, ICT, SAARC, GIS, LDB

Smart Cities Will Emerge as Major Big Data Hubs

July 2017

Most large-scale infrastructure projects today are increasingly going the public-private-partnership (PPP) way. Technology and governance are key ena...

Tags: PPP, Lux Rao, SAARC, Cisco India, Technology, Infrastructure, Investment

Structuring and Framing Big Data Sets Require Devoted Machine Learning

July 2017

Right now, there is a proliferation of big data that can be used for a myriad of purposes. Unfortunately, without a structure in which to organise bi...

Tags: Patricia McCarney, World Council, WCCD, PPP, ICT, Smart cities, Investment, KPI

Mitigate payment-related risks to make infrastructure sustainable

July 2017

I think in many sectors the policies are conducive. The most recent example is the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Project, where IFC was the lead public-priva...

Tags: Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Project, PPP, Rooftop solar projects, Street lighting infrastructure, Highways, Expressways, Ports, Airports, Renewables, Power generation, Namami Gange Programme, IFC, APA, GIS, Global Infrastructure Fund

Fast Forwarding the Lifeline

July 2017

It is often pointed out that every rupee invested in ramping up railway infrastructure benefits the economy six times over. Therefore, after languish...

Tags: Infrastructure, British Raj, NDA, Bibek Debroy, IRCON, IRFC, PSU, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, GBS, GE, Alstom, PPP, Rail Sanraksha Kosh, Mobility, Siemens

We will directly deal with land-owners if acquisition is delayed

July 2017

Mangu Singh, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) indicates that challenges around land acquisition have slowed down the ongoing ex...

Tags: Mangu Singh, DMRC, Delhi Metro, Construction, ATO, DPR, PPP, JICA, UNFCCC, SPV, Manish Pant