UP tops infra projects under PPP mode

May 2016

Uttar Pradesh (UP) has clocked the highest share in infrastructure projects carried out under the public private partnership (PPP) mode across India....

Tags: PPP, Infrastructure Projects, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, ASSOCHAM, SREI, PPP Investment Projects

Where are the investor-friendly policies?

May 2016

First and foremost, water is a scarce commodity. If at all there is a war, it will be for water, now. Unfortunately, in India, the per capita availab...

Tags: Ashish Tandon, Egis India, Water supply, Distribution woes, Infrastructure, AMRUT schemes, PPP, Orange City Water Project, Roadblock, Delhi Metro, QCBS, PHED, JICA, CWC, World Bank

We are not asset owners. We are not bankers. We are operators

May 2016

Formerly known as Vivendi Environment, the France-based transnational firm Veolia Environment is active in water, waste solutions and energy services...

Tags: Vivendi Environment, Veolia Environment, Water, Waste solutions, KUWASIP, OCW, EPC, PPP, Nag River, Distribution, Construction, Technology, Gabon, Niger, JNURM

Save That Drop!

May 2016

Two of the most crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), set in 2000, were to halve the numbers of those in the world without drinking water a...

Tags: UN Millennium Development Goals, Drinking water, Sanitation, CGWB, Ganga-Brahmaputra Plains, Fertiliser, Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Ecological sanitation, Shashikant Hastak, ULB, PPP project

Needed: Project Managers

May 2016

The Indian Railways, which had a modest beginning in 1853, has since then been an integral part of the nation, a network that has held together a pop...

Tags: Indian Railways, PPP, Narendra Modi, Investments, Modernisation, Resettlement & Rehabilitation, Port, Road projects, Delhi Metro, PMI, RFP, MoSPI, KPMG, L&T Institute of Project Management, FICCI

We don´t have a benchmark. The government will have to start setting it

May 2016

It seems the government has a few mega projects in hand. These really need to stand the test of time, and how the rollout is going to happen is going...

Tags: Sandeep Upadhyay, Centrum Infrastructure Advisory, PPP, Framework, Trans-Harbour Link, Railways, EPC, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, PPP metro projects, Kelkar Committee Report, BOT, JICA, World Bank, ADB, LIC

Railways form an essential element of infrastructure

May 2016

We would like to contribute to the growth and development of rail transportation in India through our experience and capabilities acquired by deliver...

Tags: Tomohiko Okada, Toshiba India Pvt Ltd, Indian Railways, Robust infrastructure, Rolling stock, China, LRT, Electric bus, EPC project, Toshiba HVAC system, DMRC, Hyundai Rotem, PPP project

Smart Cities Now

April 2016

With the announcement of the 20 cities to be developed as smart, CW records the industry´s reactions on business opportunities and unveils the tender...

Tags: Smart Cities Proposals, Philip Bane, Smart Cities Council, Pratap Padode, Jagdish Salgaonkar, AECOM, Guy Perry, Essel Infra, Lux Rao, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE, Itron, Aamer Azeemi, CISCO Systems, ICT Solutions