Centre moves to complete pending NHAI projects

August 2016

Various steps have been taken by the government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to remove the hurdles affecting the construction ...

Tags: NHAI projects, Construction of highway projects, PPP, Stressed highway projects, Cash flows, Contractors, Disputes Resolution Mechanism

Smart Cities Workshop | Revenue Generation and Procurement Agenda

August 2016

How do you unleash innovation in your city? How can you benefit from innovation in other cities? Cities that can enable vibrant business ecosystems a...

Tags: Generation, Procurement, DLB Conference Hall, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Smart Cities, SCCI, Pratap Padode, Dr Manjit Singh, Government of Rajasthan, PPP, Manik Sethi, Thomson Reuters, AUMENTUM, Dr Niraj Prakash

Risk allocation wholly skewed against private sector

August 2016

Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, Feedback Infra feels that the country has failed miserably on regulation, renegotiation, risk allocation and resourcing...

Tags: Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infra, PPP, Vijay Kelkar Committee report, Prasanta Chandra, CVC, CIC, CAG, MANISH PANT

Monitoring contractual obligations is the next big thing for India

August 2016

Indeed. From the mid-1990s, where we started with private sector involvement with power generation, and subsequently into mobile telephony and transp...

Tags: PPP, C P Nair, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, PFI, CCI, NIIF, MoI, RAHUL KAMAT

The Great PPP Conundrum

August 2016

The fast growth of the Indian economy in recent years has placed increasing stress on physical infrastructure, such as electricity, railways, roads, ...

Tags: PPP, Electricity, Railways, Roads, Ports, Airports, Irrigation, Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infrastructure, 12 CONCOR trains, SEZ, GMR Infra, Rohit Chandak, Uniquest Infra Ventures Pvt Ltd, BOT

Revisiting Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

August 2016

The private sector brings with it the benefit of private funding of the projects and efficiency of operations. ´Public-Private Partnership´ (PPP) has...

Tags: PPP projects, Government of India, Indian Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, Kelkar Committee, Mediation, Negotiation, Delhi Mediation Centre, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Electricity, Dispute Review Board, Dispute Review Expert of NHAI, Arbitration, UNCITRAL Conciliation Rules, Vijay Kelkar, IPRC

Rental Housing | A missing link in the housing shortage dilemma?

August 2016

As urbanisation strengthens its foothold in India, the housing shortage problem becomes more prominent. The rural poor flocking to Tier-I cities and ...

Tags: Pankaj Kapoor Urbanisation, MNC, Tier-I cities, Tier-II cities, RCA, Commercial, EWS, LIG, MIG, NDA government, NURHP, PPP, REIT, SPV, JNNURM

First PPP station redevelopment in Madhya Pradesh

August 2016

The Indian Railways Station Redevelopment Corporation has signed an agreement with a consortium of two private companies for modernisation of the Hab...

Tags: Indian Railways Station Redevelopment Corporation, PPP Station Redevelopment, Madhya Pradesh, Bansal Construction Works, Prakash Asphalting & Toll Highways (India)