Tamil Nadu joins UDAY, ‘Power for All’ gets a boost

January 2017

The Ministry of Power has signed an MoU for Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) with Tamil Nadu in New Delhi, on 9 January, 2017. With the signing o...

Tags: Ministry of Power, MoU, Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana, 24x7 Power For All, EESL-led schemes, LED bulb programme, PPP, Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Coal, MNRE, PGCIL, NTPC, BEE, EESL, REC

HMDA proposes four more logistic parks

January 2017

Apart from the proposed logistic parks at Mangalapally and Batasingaram on the outskirts of Hyderabad, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authori...

Tags: Logistics, Truck terminal, HMDA, CTS, Infrastructure, PPP, Logistic parks

Cement Expo 2016

January 2017

It is uncontested reality that ´infrastructure will drive cement demand´. This was also the theme for the Cement Expo held last month in Mumbai. The ...

Tags: ASAPP Info Global Group, Indian Cement Review, Pratap Padode, Sumit Banerjee, Falguni Padode, Roshan Wadhera, PPP projects, Umesh Shrivastava, Holtec, Infrastructural Revival, Composite Cement, CEM, Mahendra Singhi, Dalmia Bharat, KK Taparia

With the conducive environment, investor confidence will go up

January 2017

Infrastructure is the backbone of any economy. But good infrastructure development needs good planning. Lack of planning is the biggest problem. Chin...

Tags: Infrastructure, Backbone, Subrat Nath, Talgo, EU, Waste management, Narendra Modi, SCADA, Smart meters, Energy Management, PwC, FDI, PPP, EPC, Transportation

Infra-vestment | Follow the Money

January 2017

India will need $1.5 trillion of investment in infrastructure over the next 10 years. Of this nearly $10 billion is required in sewage treatment plan...

Tags: Infrastructure Projects, Arun Lakhani, Vishvaraj Infrastructure, Hybrid Annuity Model, Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback Infra, PPP, Narendra Modi, Vijay Kelkar Committee Report, SEBI, REIT, InVIts, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Sterlite Power Grid, Infrastructure Leasing

Dash for Cash

January 2017

The Indian infrastructure story is at an interesting crossroad. On the one hand, being the world´s fastest growing major economy, India needs to crea...

Tags: Indian Infrastructure, PPP, Demonetisation, Investments, Sapna Seth, Singhi Advisors

By 2050, 60percent of India´s population will reside in towns

January 2017

Western economies like Europe and the USA are already quite advanced when it comes to infrastructure development compared to the developing countries...

Tags: Infrastructure Development, Ashish Tandon, Egis in India, Finance management, Engineering, UN Habitat, Smart Cities plan, AMRUT, Narendra Modi, PwC, Procurement, Design, Operations, PPP, EPC

Newsmakers 2016

December 2016

The year 2016 dawned with a sense of guarded anticipation - while much remained the same, some things were definitely changing, with metro projects...

Tags: Newsmakers, CW, Dr Raghuram Rajan, Reserve Bank of India, ECB guidelines, Urjit Patel, Sujoy Bose, Takema Sakamoto, JICA, IIFCL, PPP infrastructure financing projectsc, TRIL, InvIT, Sanjay G Ubale, Leena Nandan