TOT auction can draw foreign ‘patient capital’ in win-win

April 2018

CRISIL expects the first bundle of nine toll-operate-transfer (TOT) projects put up by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to elicit good...

Tags: CRISIL, NHAI, TOT, India road transportation sector, IRR

Apollo LogiSolutions appoints new CEO

April 2018

Apollo LogiSolutions (ALS) announced the appointment of Samarnath Jha as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Director on the Board. Jha, with a...

Tags: Apollo LogiSolutions, Logistics, Appointment, Transportation

Hitachi acquires stakes, forms Hitachi MGRM Net

April 2018

Hitachi and Hitachi India have formed Hitachi MGRM Net to expand its Social Innovation Business in India using digital technologies. Hitachi India ac...

Tags: Hitachi and Hitachi India, Hitachi MGRM Net, E-Governance covers, e-Education, M-Star Education Expert Systems, Intelligent Transport Systems, Digital India, IoT technologies

Funding Not a Constraint for Road Building Programmes

March 2018

In an exclusive interview to INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Debjani Chakrabarti, Director Highways, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) elucidates s...

Tags: Debjani Chakrabarti, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Roads building programme, EPFO, LIC, PPP, BOT, Hybrid Annuity Mode, EPC, NHDP, PCU, Construction, NHIDCL, NHAI, NIIF

Port of Call

March 2018

The Government of India has embarked on the Sagarmala Programme with a vision to reduce logistics cost for both domestic and EXIM cargo and utilise t...

Tags: Government of India, Sagarmala Programme, Waterways, CEZ, EXIM cargo, Nitin Gadkari, TEFR, Port, DPR, NGR, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and National Highways Authority of India, JNPT, SEZ, Ministry of Shipping, Karwar Port

India represents a $3.1 trillion climate investment opportunity

March 2018

At the outset, Aditi Maheshwari, Climate Change Policy Specialist at the Washington DC-based International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Ban...

Tags: Aditi Maheshwari, Climate Change Policy Specialist, Renewable energy, transport, Green buildings, Municipal solid waste management, Smart urban, Electric vehicles, PPP, Instruments, SEBI, SBN, Indian Banks Association, Nationally Determined Contributions, Manish Pant

We will require 80,000 direct and 1.25 lakh indirect skilled workforce

March 2018

For instance, out of the 111 identified National Waterways, 106 were conceived in 2016 alone. An assertive Nutan Guha Biswas, Chairperson, Inland Wat...

Tags: Nutan Guha Biswas, IWAI, AGMUT, IAS, Guha Biswas, National Waterways, transportation, River Ganga, Narendra Modi, Venkaiah Naidu, Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development, Ganga Rejuvenation

Roads on a Hot Streak

March 2018

Sustained government thrust through policy changes, investments and proactive addressing of nagging issues, has placed the roads sector in what could...

Tags: NHAI, HAM, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, BOT, Construction, PPP, TOT, Binaifer F Jehani, CRISIL Research