After liberalisation, the government´s primary focus was on reducing the fiscal deficit to restore macroeconomic stability, reforming trade and exchange rate policies and liberalising foreign investment policy. Infrastructure was never a growth constraint in the short term, considering the low utilisation of the existing infrastructure then.
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Modi launches Neev Fund in UK
India´s first low-income state infrastructure equity partnership (the Neev Fund) was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in UK in the presence of David Cameron, Prime Minister, United Kingdom.
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.
Woman power at SBI
After Chanda Kochhar and Shikha Sharma, another woman is going to head a bank. Arundhati Bhattacharya has been appointed as the first woman Managing Director of SBI.
Restructuring must be done only when viability is not in question
Rather than having viability problems, infrastructure projects are typically “front-ended”, so it is often the mismatch between the lending and the project’s revenue-making tenures that lead to an increased likelihood of restructuring, says Arundhati Bhattacharya, MD & CEO of SBI Capital Markets in an interaction with Sumantra Das.