Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects do have certain advantages which amount to lesser amount of risk for the private company. While a successful EPC road project
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SPML Infra secures new orders worth Rs. 1802.10 crores
SPML Infra Ltd., India's leading infrastructure development company has won new orders worth Rs. 1802.10 Crores from South Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd. (SBPDCL), Bihar and Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) of Rajasthan.
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Tunnelling: The big bore
Compared with other countries like China, India has just taken baby steps. But as cities burst at the seams, more hydro projects are sanctioned in the north east and challenging rail projects are underway,
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Ports, not TAMP, will be in charge of setting their own tariffs
Regulatory and clearance delays may be necessary evils in infrastructure projects, especially those under PPP. But as N Muruganandam, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Shipping, elaborates, the government's ambitious plans of port infrastructure development
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The silent underdog
The PMGSY has been a remarkable scheme, with substantial potential in ushering in the much-needed bottom-up reforms. Despite its obvious effectiveness in various economic, social and business domains, availability of funds and trained resources
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Fee-sharing mechanisms should be encouraged to push takeout finance
Takeout financing should be one of the key channels for financing infrastructure projects, wherein, certain sectors like power do have sector exposure issues with the banking sector,
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Logistics: Driven by imponderables
Logistics sector and logistics costs are largely driven by many imponderables that occur in the global, national, and regional canvas. Therefore, it will be wrong on our part if we generalise issues and arrive on conclusions
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Build pace of reforms | Budget 2013-14
Most of the country's logistics resources are in urgent need of refurbishment. Setting up of a nodal cross-ministerial logistics body, providing infrastructure status to the wider transportation and logistics industry and dedicating higher financial outlay for logistics skill improvement is, therefore, advisable. TCI is in favour of a separate regulatory authority for better coordination between ministries for an integrated policy on the sector.
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Growth with responsibility
If growth is looked at as a number without relative comparison with the general life improvement of the common man, it remains an anomaly, an evasive terminology for showing
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Rural commerce should be seen as the integrator
The concept has been suggested, but with a new fillip to rural infrastructure, can integration of various infra projects under an umbrella, which can be viability’s “go†signal, take off this year?