Our roads sector wants to go cool, and with good reason. Minister CP Joshi will be on Google Plus Hangout on 29 March; National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken another step towards its private partners.
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Govt to adopt EPC model again for road projects
Reports indicate that the union government prefers to award road projects on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model because of poor interest shown by developers for PPP (BOT) model. It is learnt that the recent award of road projects witnessed a considerable decline in the number of bidders on the BOT toll basis
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Govt to adopt EPC model again for road projects
Reports indicate that the union government prefers to award road projects on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model because of poor interest shown by developers for PPP (BOT) model. It is learnt that the recent award of road projects witnessed a considerable decline in the number of bidders on the BOT toll basis
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Infrascape 2013 | Positive changes in 2013
In the power sector, 2012 has been a very bad year with zero projects commenced. Unfortunately all the ingredients of the sector have gone wrong. Coal, environĂÂmental clearances and land became a huge problem for any power project. So whatever projects were on the anvil have also got delayed or shelved.
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Infrascape 2013 | Nextgen global contractors will be from India
The Indian Construction Industry in general faces a huge dichotomy, neither is it valued overseas, other than as a source of labour resources, nor is it valued at home, because of fragmentation and poor practices, and yet the potenĂÂtial is huge.
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Tight liquidity scenario and toll non-compliance governed the road sector performancey
As against the target of 9,000 kms, during the first six months of 2012-13, NHAI managed to award only six projects. These six projects incĂÂluded two large-scale projects Ăâ Mega Maharashtra Highway (484 kms; Amravati-Jalgaon-Gujarat) and WalajĂÂahpet PoonĂÂamallee (93 kms). However, these projects were bid out at seemingly aggressive prices.
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Infrascape 2013 | Great opportunity in 2013
Most of the contracts in the Infrastructure sector are long lead time projects with significant investments. WhicĂÂhever customer of ours in these industries that we speak to, they all have experienced the effects of overall economic slowdown and the difficulty in getting funds for these projects. Larger projects such as in the power sector or in the road construction have continued to face problems in land acquisition and obtaining all the governmental clearances.
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Phase it: The fourth is a challenge
Highways will continue to be sluggish until the unattractive Phase IV projects are completed. With the road sector is poised to undergo a further change in the coming years, the industry as a whole, needs to continue tapping the advantages of road transportation more efficiently and optimally than ever before, writes Bhavik Damodar. The road transportation sector continues to struggle to cater to the countryĂâs size and widely spread consumption hubs.
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The bidding process is good for small, medium and large players
BanksĂâ new stipulation of 100 per cent land availability for highway projects, along with poor response from bidders and financial closure difficulties among concessionaires, have hampered the awards and implementation, says JN Singh, MemberĂâFinance, NHAI, in an interview with Sumantra Das. Major reason behind this is the poor responses from the concessionaires and in some of our bids (about 7-8) we havenĂât even find any bidder. Secondly, banks also are asking our 100 per cent land availability
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Slowdown hits NHAIĂâs projects
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) awarded a whopping 49 projects totalling 7,500 km last fi nancial year. But this fi scal, in the fi rst six months, the authority has managed to award just four projects measuring 560 km. NHAI attributes this situation to eco-denomic slowdown. Infrastructure companies, who grabbed every road project on offer last fi scal, are now not showing interest to take up these projects. None of the projects awarded last fi scal was on engineering, procuremen