Varanasi to have major infrastructure projects

January 2018

Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh is undergoing a major overhaul in the area of transport infrastructure as seven highways projects and a multi-modal termina...

Tags: Ganga River, Seven highways projects, Under construction, Jal Marg Vikas, Construction work, Transport vis-à-vis rail, Road, Waterways, National Highway

Navantia buys Cometto MSPE trailers

January 2018

The Spanish company Navantia SA recently received nine modular combinations of self-propelled MSPE 48 t trailers from specialist Cometto. ...

Tags: Navantia, Cometto, Trailers, Transportation, MSPE, Swedish automotive, Solid rubber tyres

Siemens to electrify Gujarat Metro Link Express

January 2018

In a massive infrastructure boost to Gujarat, the Indian mass-transit operator Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) Company has aw...

Tags: Infrastructure, North-South Corridor, SCADA, Tilak Raj Seth, Siemens, Transportation

Central Government planning to decongest the national capital

January 2018

As reported, massive projects worth an investment of Rs 31,930 crore are in the pipleline to decongest New Delhi. These include developing the Dwarka...

Tags: Investment, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, MoRTH, Construction, Central Government

Railways to raise Rs 30,000 crore through asset monetisation

January 2018

The Indian Railways is optimistic about raising Rs 30,000 crore through its maiden asset monetisation drive in the current financial year, according ...

Tags: Indian Railways, Power transmission, National transporters, Finance ministry

We bid for projects to generate ~17-18% EBITDA

January 2018

With more than two decades of experience in transport engineering, J Kumar Infraprojects prides in having has an increasing and diversified order boo...

Tags: Transport engineering, J Kumar Infraprojects, Civil construction, Roads, Bridges, Flyovers, Pedestrian subways, Skywalks, Stormwater drainage, buildings, EBITDA

Bharat Mala is worth Rs.10 lakh crore; we want to start projects worth Rs.3 lakh crore under Phase-I in 2018

January 2018

Focus, zeal, vigour - these qualities, incredibly evident in this minister, have contributed to his extensive mandate. Indeed, Nitin Gadkari, Ministe...

Tags: Nitin Gadkari, Road Transport, Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development, Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India, Bharatmala programme, NPA, SEZ, JNPT, Smart cities, Ro-Ro services, DPR

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