The Indian infrastructure sector has been snowed under unfavourable macroeconomic variables and project level stress over the past couple of years. The slowing economy had an adverse impact on the transportation sector, particularly the projects in the early ramp-up stage.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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Still a distant dream?
The establishment of the road regulator, as was announced in the 2013-14 Union Budget, might take place only after the elections. While many industry players want a regulator to be set up, what will the entity finally look like? Rahul Kamat takes a peek at the current trends.
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Managing infra assets
India's rapidly growing infrastructure asset base needs to be properly managed in order to ensure investor confidence. G Sathiamoorthy seeks to provide an overview of the new ISO 5500X suite of International Standards for Asset Management and its implications and applications for the effective management of India's burgeoning infrastructure asset base.
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American gas exports to India will be competitive
The US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) is a bipartisan organisation working through economic diplomacy to impact policies concerning the Indian-American community in the US. Robinder Sachdev, Director of India Affairs, USIPNAC, speaks to Devarajan Mahadevan on the latest issues that the entity is trying to resolve between the two countries.
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IDFs are the best route to refinance existing projects
Sadashiv Rao, Chief Risk Officer, IDFC Ltd tells Rahul Kamat that IDF-NBFC is a safer route compared to IDF-Mutual Fund, as in the latter, the fund manager can invest in any project (under construction) which will have risk involved in it, and investors may not like to invest in high-risk projects.
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Infra Insights
Long-term financing is what the Indian infrastructure sector needs to attain the projected growth. And Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs), which the government had in 2011-12 fiscal under Finance Minister P Chidambaram allowed to form to step up investment in the infrastructure sector, which requires $ 1 trillion in the 12th Plan.
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Empowering shareholders
In her second article in this series, Prachi Manekar writes on some of the significant changes in the new Companies Act that has overhauled corporate governance regime to strengthen investor protection.
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A tale of two Bills
The Highways Bill could represent the first major step taken by the government towards the creation of an independent authority with the power to cut delays and streamline the project approvals processes, thereby addressing major problems faced by the Indian roads and highways industry today and potentially opening up huge private investment, writes Aakanksha Joshi.
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Opportunities on the horizon
India plans to more than double its port capacity to 3,200 million tonne at an investment of Rs 2.87 trillion by 2020, drivin the demand for more port handling equipment. Sudheer Vathiyath trains through the prevailing trends in port equipment market.
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Transparent moves
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.