Hun Kim, Country Director of Asian Development Bank (ADB) informed that the multilateral lending institution is discussing with several banks on participating in the infrastructure debt fund (IDF) floated by them. It is learnt that ADB plans to participate in the IDF floated by domestic banks through the NBFC route. The current regulatory framework allows IDFs to be floated eith
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SK Goel, Chairman and Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) said that the firm got Securities and Exchange Board of India's (Sebi) nod to launch $1 billion infrastructure debt fund (IDF). IIFCL expects to operationalise the fund in a month. Of the $1 billion corpus, 50 per cent would be contributed by Indian investors and 50 per cent by foreign investors, he said at the launch of first credit enhanced infrastructure bonds.
ADB’s kudos to Bihar for road construction works
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has praised road construction work in Bihar and promised all assistance to the State government in its future projects. A lot of good work has been done in Bihar in the field of roads. ADB will provide all assistance to the government in further promoting good roads in the state, Widowati, Director, Transport & Communication division, South Asia department of ADB said. He was in Patna on January 31 for talks on new projects.
ADB’s stake in Petronet eyed by IGL
Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is in the process of offloading its 5.2 per cent shareholding in Petronet LNG is set to get a buyer as Indraprastha Gas is interested in picking up the stake. Although Petronet's promoter companies IOC, ONGC, GAIL and BPCL were originally interested in buyi
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.
C’garh to get $300 mn ADB loan to repair its roads
To repair over 900 kilometres of roads in Chhattisgarh state, the Asian Development Bank would provide $300 million loan to the State government, the Bank said in statement on December 11. The project would include works such as expanding roads for two-laning, building new sections, construction and strengthening of culverts and brigdes.
Hydel project gets $315 mn ADB loan
A 450 MW hydroelectric project in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh received $315 million loan assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The multilateral lending institution entered into a pact to this effect with the Government of India.
The Shongtong Karcham Hydroelectric Project is expected to cost a total of $750 million, with the Himachal Pradesh
Consider development in addition to projects
Institutional investment in the recently introduced IDFs will require sovereign guarantees. Projected not merely as a factor of a single project but for several projects in a developmental cluster, such government guarantees can reduce the chances of the risk.
We need to rethink governments structure for better project implementation
Urban transport can be profitable, but do our city governments have the powers and the capability? Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Union Ministry of Urban Development, who was recently in Mumbai to attend the Traffic Infra Tech Expo,
Govt may provide soft loans for PPP projects
Ajay Saxena of Asian Development Bank informed that government might consider proÂviding soft loans to developers of projects on public private partnership (PPP) basis if there is a shortfall in revenue.The government would provide the loan as per the draft rule on PPP projects on revenue support released by the Planning Commission.