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

Indian airports facing severe capacity crunch

November 2017

Amber Dubey, Partner and India Head of Aerospace & Defence, KPMG feels that a tough relook is required at the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Re...

Tags: Amber Dubey, KPMG, LARR, AAI, Regional Connectivity Scheme, NCAP 2016, Airport terminals, UDAN scheme, PPP, FDI, ASEAN, MRO sector, GST, MoCA, AERA

New Direction

October 2017

The infrastructure sector is the backbone of the Indian economy and its importance cannot be stressed enough. The government of India has earmarked 2...

Tags: Infrastructure sector, MUKUND SAPRE, CAGR, Road, Transport, Shipping, ITCS, Electronic Toll Collection, RFID, NHAI, GST, PPP, EPC, ITNL, IECCL

GVK receives LOA for the Navi Mumbai Airport Project

October 2017

The GVK led Mumbai International Airport (P) Ltd., (MIAL) was handed over the Letter of Award (LOA) today from CIDCO, the nodal agency of the Governm...

Tags: GVK led Mumbai International Airport (P) Ltd, CIDCO, Navi Mumbai International Airport, PPP

Smart Cities to get French expert assistance

October 2017

The housing and urban affairs ministry is set to rope in planning and development experts from France to bring the delayed Smart City projects on sch...

Tags: Smart City projects, Emmanuel Macron, PPP, Hardeep Singh Puri, Smart City banner