Page 7 - India's Infrastructure

India needs to improve contract enforcement, upgrade infra: Experts

The private sector, experts say, can play a vital role in helping the government create an enabling ecosystem to attract investments from abroad

401 infrastructure projects show cost overrun of Rs 4.06 trillion: Report

The expenditure incurred on these projects till December 2019 was Rs 10,89,178.11 crore, which is 44.06 per cent of the anticipated cost of the projects

Infrastructure in cloud cuckoo land

Nurturing ambition and setting high targets are important attributes of planning and governance

Required: Institutional capacity

The UK's National Infrastructure Commission provides some lessons

Budget 2020: Ambitious infrastructure agenda to boost construction

The domestic financial sector, including banks, will have a crucial role in financing the envisaged capex

Funding India's infrastructure gap

To achieve a truly transformational infrastructure push, resources such as land will have to be leveraged and innovative financial structures deployed to attract private capital

PM Narendra Modi reviews 9 delayed projects worth Rs 24,000 crore

These projects, worth over Rs 24,000 crore, are spread over Odisha, Telangana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh

Demystifying Budget 2020: FinMin to start social media campaign from Jan 22

The ministry has also launched another campaign on Budget promises and delivery with tag '#HamaraBharosa'.

Push for infrastructure

Financing projects will be the biggest challenge

Will the Rs 102 trillion infra plan boost L&T and other companies?

Analysts, in unison, gave a thumbs up to the latest measure by the government to boost the sagging economy but cautioned that more needed to be done to resolve existing issues

Rs 102 trn infrastructure investment: Which sector gets how much?

While Rs 102 trillion to be invested during this period would be spread between 12 broad sectors, almost one-third of the projects are still in conceptual stage

Rs 5 trn to be spent over 2 years on infra to spur economy: Gadkari

"We will spend Rs 2 trn in infrastructure projects in this fiscal (2019-20) and Rs 3 trn in the next fiscal (2020-21) to boost the economy and generate employment in thousands," Gadkari said

How corruption and populist politics weigh down Delhi's infrastructure

The first of a five-part series takes stock of Delhi, the power centre and cultural melting pot of India, to find that it needs an overhaul

Unclogging the liquidity flow

While easing procedures against arbitration awards helps, more needs to be done to boost infra

JKB Infra joins hands with French firm SNCF to revamp railways stations

It is a landmark project to redevelop, reconstruct and renovate India's major railway stations to surpass world-class standards and focuses on key stations to positively impact 100 cities

A cobbler's suggestions to mend the economy

One-time restructuring of real estate loans and a large fund to buy toxic assets and equity in banks and NBFCs can bring back the animal spirits in the economy

Govt looking at ways to finance highway projects worth Rs 15 trn: V K Singh

Singh said that amid talks of slowing global economy, highways sector has the potential to revive growth citing how the US survived economic depression

India to spend $1.4 trn over 5 years on infrastructure development: Pradhan

All this, Pradhan said, augurs well for the steel demand in the country

When is a good time for austerity?

There is a time for austerity - when there is a boom

Projecting a pipeline

One way of helping project finance revive in India is by demystifying risk - and the government has just taken a useful step in that direction