In a sweet spot

March 2018

First the good news! The economy's doing well, the stock market's touching new peaks and Indians are flying like never before. ...

Tags: RCS, National Civil Aviation Policy, AAI, LARR Act 2013, FDI, Incheon Airport, PPP, AERA, MRO, GST, NCAP 2016, LPV procedures, DGCA, MoCA, ISRO

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

Accelerating Infrastructure Projects

March 2018

Over the past 10 years, India has successfully executed projects such as the Golden Quadrilateral road programme and port expansion projects in the c...

Tags: Port, Infrastructure, NHDP, NMDP, DFC, Investments, PMO, KPMG-PMI, GDP, FDI, Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities, PPP, FICCI

PMAY-U: A Boost For Urban Housing

March 2018

According to economic survey 2015v16, the decade to 2011 saw inter-state migration of 60 million people and inter-district migration of around 80 mil...

Tags: economic survey 2015-16, EWS, PMAY-U, FSI, MHUPA, Housing for All 2022, PPP, Affordable housing, RERA, Binaifer Jehani, CRISIL Research

Tender for Hinjewadi-Shivajinagar Metro to be finalised in April

March 2018

The Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (PMRDA) has reportedly announced that private companies that are likely to carry out the constru...

Tags: PMRDA, Construction, Tata Realty, Siemens, ILFS, IRB, PPP, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park

Pimpri Chinchwad to have about 60,000 affordable houses by 2022

March 2018

Around 60,000 affordable houses based on public-private-partnership (PPP) basis will be built in all eight zones of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal C...

Tags: Affordable houses, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, MHADA, DPR, PCMC, PMAY, PPP, Construction

Can Digital India have a major role to play in the smart cities mission? Find out!

March 2018

'The major support from Digital India to the Smart Cities mission has come in the form of Aadhaar,' says Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consult...

Tags: Digital India, Smart Cities mission, Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consultant, LED lights, PPP, Hitech telecom tower, MoUD, Infrastructure, Ministry of IT

Will funding projects through PPP or floating bonds be the ideal way to raise the required money to build smart?

March 2018

Smart cities have been provided some seed money from the Centre and the state, with some to be generated from their own budget. But the financial req...

Tags: APUIAML, JV, IL&FS Group, Prakash Gaur, Urban Infrastructure Asset Management, APUDF, FSI, PPP projects, SPV, LED lights, Ajay Saxena, Ravinder Reddy, Grant Thornton India LLP, Smart city plan