The meeting focused on measures to build a robust, globally competitive ecosystem in step with India’s rapidly expanding aviation sector. India held the first meeting of the High‑Level Committee (HLC) on Aircraft Leasing and Financing on Wednesday to deliberate measures for building a robust and globally competitive ecosystem, in step with the rapid expansion of...
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GIFT City Units Freed from Coastal Shipping Licence, Boosting India’s Maritime Finance Hub
This landmark maritime reform is set to drive leasing, financing, and ship‑owning through GIFT City, while opening India’s maritime assets to deeper global capital participation. In a landmark reform, the Centre has exempted units established in the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), GIFT City, Gandhinagar, from the licensing requirement under Section 11 of the Coastal...
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Embrace emerging financing architecture: IIFCL MD
As the relay financing framework slowly takes hold in infrastructure financing, the government-owned Indian Infrastructure Finance Co. Ltd (IIFCL) is busy prepping to support megaprojects, Dr. Padmanabhan Raja Jaishankar, MD tells Manish Pant. Alternate Investment Financing (AIF) to source funds from international investors is already being rolled out. Jaishankar is also optimistic that given the significant stress...
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Greenfield smart cities will increase efficiency
In an exclusive interview with INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Ajay Pandey, Managing Director, Group CEO of GIFT City, outlines how an ideal greenfield city should be.
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TIME RIPE FOR Greenfield!
A greenfield smart city is a clean-slate approach towards urban growth, something that helps prepare for a new future. Two main issues that need to be addressed today a comingofage population that needs employment, and a place for them to live while they work.
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Timely Fixes
Historically, infrastructure projects in India have been funded on a mix of debt and equity. The current trends suggest so. Over the past 15 days, as many as three initial public offerings-IRB, HUDCO and PSP Projects - have hit Dalal Street, raising more than Rs 6,000 crore, a testimony to the fact that the bond market is gaining pace after the 2008 turmoil.
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Movers and Shakers
Urbanisation is an inexorable process as far as India is concerned. The future of India's growth lies in its cities, and a large chunk of our GDP will come from urban centres.
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Urban Growth Corridors
India is one of the fastest growing and most populated economies in the world. By 2030, the urban areas would contribute 75 per cent of India's GDP and house 590 million people, about 40 per cent of the population.
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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.
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