The industry estimates that falling crude oil prices, lower fuel subsidies along with recent diesel tax hikes could together add almost Rs 1.1 trillion to the Union Budget. And with the government planning to spend about $8 billion of that on infrastructure and manufacturing activities, the infrastructure sector is looking at a brighter year ahead.

Lack of funds and investor confidence are two factors that are hurting the infrastructure sector. Efforts are needed to bring back the faith and money in the sector. FICCI´s India Infrastructure Summit 2014 focused on the theme ´Transport sector: Convergence & Connectivity

Though investment in infrastructure is expected to touch $1,025 billion in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17), many hurdles are choking investment inflows despite the government´s overdrive to attract funds. The government´s recent decision to open up the railway sector to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

The recently concluded FICCIs India PPP Summit 2014 saw deliberations and acknowledgment on the need to relook at the PPP model in India.

All stakeholders agree that India's mining industry is in the doldrums, to say the least. And the single-biggest reform that's urgently required, the government-assisted turnaround of Coal India Ltd. (CIL), has been put on the back-burner by the current political dispensation, much to the overall detriment of the mining industry.

The 4th International Exhibition & Conference on Civil Aviation, 'India Aviation 2014' discussed the huge untapped potential in the Indian aviation sector.

In a bid to try and get to the root cause of the delays that were stalling the implementation of projects in the country, the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) under its Chairman Anil Swarup has initiated a process to digitise the whole procedure through which clearances happen. "Our job at the PMG will get reduced as then we will know why the delays are happening and the clogging will not happen.

GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL)has bagged 'FICCI CSR Award-2012-13', for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The award was from FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence under the winner category in private sector companies.

Disregard to science and engineering of mining should be a big concern especially when it comes to giving the land back to the environment it came from. Mining companies have a lot to do in ensuring a stable environment,