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

Mahaprasthanam in Hyderabad gets revamped into a state-of-the-art modern crematorium

March 2018

Often unhygienic, unclean and chaotic, burial grounds and crematoriums fall into desolation, end up being encroached upon or even turn into dumping g...

Tags: Often unhygienic, GHMC, Fund Your City, Suresh Chukkapalli, Phoenix Group, PPP, LED lights, CCTV, Government of Telangana, Srikanth Badiga, Mahaprasthanam, equipment, Wi-Fi

Smart Cities: Financing Challenges

March 2018

In the next five years, special purpose vehicles (SPVs) will be spending around Rs.1,631 billion on projects conceived under area-based development a...

Tags: SPV, Smart Cities Mission, ULB, AMRUT, Housing for All, PPP, DPRs, PMC, Th Harikumar Singh, Imphal Municipal Corporation, SM@RT URBANATION 2018, Smart cities, Equirus Capital, Vijay Agrawal, IoT

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