Cabinet approves amendments for PPP projects at Major Ports to usher in more private participation: ICRA

January 2018

The Union Cabinet has approved certain amendments to the existing Model Concession Agreement (MCA) for PPP projects at the Major Ports, which will ad...

Tags: Union Cabinet, PPP projects, MCA, Sagarmala programme, TAMP, SAROD-PORTS, K Ravichandran, ICRA, Investments, Major Ports

Reflecting Industry Optimism

January 2018

Excon 2017 held from December 12-16 brought about the reflection of new optimism visible in the construction equipment market. The expo spread across...

Tags: Excon 2017, Construction equipment, CII Excon 2017, ICEMA, BAI, Anant Geete, Government of India, Amitabh Kant, Hari Sankaran, Infrastructure, PPP, Nextgen Infrastructure, RV Deshpande, KOCEMA, VDMA

BHARATMALA: Beyond Connecting Roads

January 2018

October 2017 witnessed the largest ever outlay of road construction in India: Bharatmala. The programme involves around 83,000 km - including the fir...

Tags: Bharatmala, Road construction, Shubham Jain, ICRA, NHDP, Kelkar Committee, PPP framework, Rajat Gupta, McKinsey & Company, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Sudhir Hoshing, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Vinayak K Deshpande

SAGARMALA: All for Ports

January 2018

Sagarmala, the flagship programme of the Ministry of Shipping, hinges on capacity expansion and modernisation of ports along India's coastline, enhan...

Tags: Sagarmala, Ministry of Shipping, Ports, Ankit Patel, ICRA, DPR, Tata Projects, JNPT, MT Krishna Babu, Sanjay Bhatia, Mumbai Port Trust, FSRU, CCEA, EJC yard, Kolkata Port Trust

Integrated water management key to avert water crisis

January 2018

India is on the verge of water crisis today. The crisis is twofold: major losses in potable water supply and inadequate sewage treatment facilities a...

Tags: Arun Lakhani, Vishvaraj Infrastructure, NRW, Narendra Modi, Sewage treatment projects, PPP, ULB, Waste water management systems, NTPC, Mahagenco power plants, Orange City water project, My City My Water

Government push to make affordable dream a reality

December 2017

One of the main dockets of the current government is to avail ‘Housing for All by 2022’, which was mentioned in 2015. This scheme is primarily target...

Tags: Housing for All by 2022, LIG, MIG, PMAY, Narendra Modi, PPP, HUPA, Affordable housing, Real estate

Look out for the one bright spot in housing real estate, the impact of RERA and more

December 2017

Housing real estate is down. Sales fell by 35 per cent across eight major cities between July and September as against the previous quarter, accordin...

Tags: Housing real estate, Colliers International India, RERA, PropEquity, CLSS, PMAY, RK Arora, Affordable housing, Anuj Puri, AS Sivaramakrishnan, CBRE South Asia, PPP, Tarun Mehrotra, EWS, LIG

It is time we see an action-oriented approach from the industry

December 2017

'It is time we see an action-oriented approach from the industry,' says Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State, Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry Afforda...

Tags: Housing, Urban Affairs Ministry Affordable housing, PPP, RERA, GST, ULB, GIS, PFMS, ISSR, PMAY, BLC, BMTPC, DPR, CLSS, Budget 2016