UPSIDC plans to raise Rs.1,500 cr

September 2016

Faced with creaking infrastructure in its industrial enclaves across the state, Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) is mu...

Tags: Creaking Infrastructure, UPSIDC, World Bank, Upgrade Infrastructure Facilities, Roads, Sewage, Lighting, Water

India´s Ease of Electricity rank jumped 29 points

August 2016

India ranks 70 among 189 economies on ease of getting electricity due to positive reforms that have aided ease of doing business in the country, acco...

Tags: Electricity, World Bank, India Ease of Electricity

Monitoring contractual obligations is the next big thing for India

August 2016

Indeed. From the mid-1990s, where we started with private sector involvement with power generation, and subsequently into mobile telephony and transp...

Tags: PPP, C P Nair, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, PFI, CCI, NIIF, MoI, RAHUL KAMAT

METRONOMICS

July 2016

The experience left the planners wiser. And this was evident in the 65 kilometres of the first phase of the ambitious Delhi Metro Project getting com...

Tags: Urban infra projects, Metro rail projects, Kolkata Metro, Manish Agarwal, Infrastructure, PwC India, Urban Planning Consultant Bharat Singh, MRTS, Transportation, Road Research Laboratory, World Bank, Aalborg University, BRT, OLA, UBER

METRONOMICS

July 2016

The experience left the planners wiser. And this was evident in the 65 kilometres of the first phase of the ambitious Delhi Metro Project getting com...

Tags: Urban infra projects, Metro rail projects, Kolkata Metro, Manish Agarwal, Infrastructure, PwC India, Urban Planning Consultant Bharat Singh, MRTS, Transportation, Road Research Laboratory, World Bank, Aalborg University, BRT, OLA, UBER

Jharkhand 10th highest receiver of FDI

June 2016

Proving itself as a major emerging investment destination, Jharkhand has been ranked as the 10th highest receiver of Foreign Direct Investment propos...

Tags: Foreign Direct Investment proposals, Raghubar Das, United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin, Russia, Ukraine, World Bank

India´s Achilles heel is lack of spectrum

June 2016

It is not unusual among developing countries, to find that Internet usage lags behind mobile take-up. India suffers in the sense that, as a huge coun...

Tags: Deepak K Mishra, World Bank, World Development Report 2016, Internet infrastructure, WDR, Dig smart, Framework, DSL, Digital India, PPP

Modi eyes India in top 50

May 2016

According to a World Bank report released in June 2015, India ranks 130 (out of 189 countries) in ease of doing business; however in dealing with con...

Tags: World Bank, Narendra Modi, Ministry of Urban Development, MoUD, Ramesh Abhishek, DIPP, Municipal Corporations of Delhi, Discoms, MoUD, Framework