One Platform For All Smart Cities Solutions

March 2018

With all the glitter and shine, India's newly-found tech hub, Telangana, hosted the country's smartest conclave ever - SMART URBANATION from March 22...

Tags: SMART URBANATION, R Roshan Baig, Government of Karnataka, Smart Cities Council India, Pratap Padode, B Janardhan Reddy, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Crompton, MoU, Wild West Media, Hyderabad International Airport, Swachh Bharat recycling machine, PPP, Gensler, Chicago

India's Metro Trail

March 2018

The total length of operational metro projects in India presently stands at about 440 km and is growing. Cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, ...

Tags: Metro rail, NCR, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, NDA, MRTS, CoMET, MoHUA, JICA, EIB, Werner Hoyer, PPP, K Ravichandran, ICRA, DMRC

Low-value projects are among the most challenging

March 2018

The $1billion US-based engineering and construction management company, Louis Berger, has been active in India for over 20 years. The New Jersey-base...

Tags: Louis Berger, Slewof projects, Kshitish V. Nadgauda, L&T, MSRDC, NHAI, PPP, EPC, HAM, BoT, Dholera, Kandla Port City, Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, Hyderabad Metro, PMC

We seek to further cut opex-revenue gap

March 2018

Kochi Metro is the first Indian metro to have communication-based train control (CBTC) signalling system. Our trains are unattended train operation (...

Tags: CBTC, UTO, KMRL, PPP, AFC, KSRTC buses, GTFS, Kochi Metro Rail project, RESCO, Axis Bank, DPR

TOT would enable more assets recycling

March 2018

The recent TOT bids have shown that this model can be ideal for international institutional investors who have appetite for long-term investments and...

Tags: TOT bids, NHAI, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Network, PPP, EPC, Bhartmala project, Infrastructure, PPP, EPC, NIIF

Metro Policy 2017

March 2018

The trend of metro rail as an urban transport has gathered momentum ever since Delhi has seen successful implementation of its metro rail project....

Tags: Metro rail, MoUD, Metro Policy 2017, PPP, DBFOT, UMTA, CMP, Urban Transport Fund, VCF, Construction of Works

We are implementing projects worth Rs.20 billion

March 2018

Our city was ranked fourth in the first smart city challenge. We are also part of the 20 lighthouse cities in round 1. From March 2016, we have start...

Tags: Surat Smart City, SCM, PPP, ITMS, BRTS, ITCS, Surat Money Card, Water treatment, Renewable energy, Recycling of water, M Nagarajan

We are focussing more on PPP-based projects

March 2018

Imphal was selected in the fasttrack round of smart city challenges. Since then, we have formed the special purpose vehicle (SPV) and are in the proc...

Tags: Imphal, Fasttrack, PPP, SPV, PMC, Imphal Smart City, RFP