Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed the setting up of a National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) with an initial corpus of Rs 20,000 crore that can be leveraged by infrastructure companies.
Category: Infrastructure Finance
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Yes Bank plans to raise funds for green bond
Yes Bank is planning to raise around $100 million from International Finance Corporation (IFC), a project report issued by IFC revealed.
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SBI chief for new infrastructure financing model
State Bank of India (SBI) chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya said India needs to identify new models for infrastructure development and financing in order to take the country forward on the economic front.
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Piramal to invest Rs.5,000 crore in realty projects
Piramal Fund Management plans to invest up to Rs 5,000 crore over the next one year to finance construction projects, a top company executive said. The fund has already invested in nine realty projects through construction finance proposals totaling Rs 1,100 crore in the last three months.
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GE proposes to invest Rs.3,000 crore in Maharashtra
US-based General Electric (GE) has proposed to invest Rs 3,000 crore in Maharashtra during a meeting with State Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at the World Economic Forum meet in Davos
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Sanjeev Kaushik, a 1992 batch IAS officer of the Kerala cadre, has taken over as the Executive Director of State-owned India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL).
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Delhi Metro gets Rs.1,007 cr for phase-III
The NDA Government has allotted Rs 1006.64 as equity for the Phase III project of Delhi metro in the Union Budget recently, reflecting a hike of 22 percent with over Rs 4,200 crore being allotted to it.
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Govt allocates funds for Pune Metro
The Union Government has a plan outlay of Rs 126.58 crore, equity of Rs 70.38 crore and loans of Rs 56.20 crore for the Pune Metro rail in the 2015-16 budget.
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Ease of doing business in India has assumed priority
Generally, projects that are bankable do not face problems in obtaining financing. Of course, there are issues relating to the sector exposure, promoter commitments, etc. But these are exogenous to issues of bankability and will need to be dealt with separately at a macro level.
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First international finance centre
All financial market regulators have agreed to lay down the rules to enable India´s first international finance centre to take off in Gujarat by April.