Unveiling a $30T Economic Vision Government funding has to be complemented by private sector investment. By 2018 to 2020, assets which were created in the early phase were completed and started earning revenue to become an asset class of its own. So that has again evinced interest of investors, says Padmanabhan Raja Jaishankar, Managing Director, India...
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Air India to raise over Rs 3,000 crore for purchasing Boeing aircraft
Air India is looking to raise short-term loans worth over Rs 3,000 crore to partly fund the acquisition of four Boeing 787 planes. It plans to induct these four aircraft — part of the 27 aircraft order placed with Boeing Inc in 2006 — between July and October this year.
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India Infrastructure Summit | A curtain-raiser
The India Infrastructure Summit is the largest platform for policy debate relating to infrastructure sector in India. The seventh edition will be held in New Delhi on 16th November.
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Finmin move to make spectrum a tangible asset
The finance ministry is preparing a draft note on making spectrum a tangible asset so that the airwaves can be considered as collateral by financial institutions for lending to telecom companies.
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Power sector debts at `972,900 cr
The total outstanding loans from banks/financial institutions (including bonds) for all the utilities in the power sector during the years 2009-10 to 2011-12 stands at Rs Rs 972,900 crore. As per a report by the Power Finance Corporation (PFC), during 2009-10
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Ministry to meet banks, firms to address stalled projects
It is learnt that the union finance ministry would hold meeting with banks and companies to address the issue of stalled projects. Data available with the finance ministry shows that 215 projects, each with value of Rs 250 crore or more, have been identified as stalled. These projects are mostly financed by
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Experts advocate private regulatory mechanism
While the debate on regulating large conglomerates of financial companies continues, some experts argue that private (or market-based) regulatory mechanisms may be more efficient in certain cases compared to government regulatory mechanism. These experts argue that government regulators could be captured by special interests—of both the corporate and populist kind. And there is good reason to believe that instances of this kind have occurred in India, expe
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Bank's Cautious OnWind Energy Projects
According to senior executives in financial institutions and private equity funds, financial viability of distribution licensees, evacuation infrastructure gaps and project approvals are the constraints to utility-scale wind energy projects. The project viability is primarily dependent on their ability to sell power.
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Expressways can't be built without corporate bonds
Overdependence on bank funding of infrastructure will put unreasonable pressure on those financial institutions.