Resource crunch including skilled and unskilled labour was identified as one of the biggest stumbling blocks before a potentially booming EPC industry. The 12th Five Year Plan offers Rs 17.08 lakh crore of construction opportunity. And even as interÂnationalisation knocks on India's doors,
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IIFCL becomes non-banking finance firm
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will now regulate India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL). The Union Cabinet approved a proposal in this regard.
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Infra projects on fast track
Worried by the looming European economic crisis and the slow progress of some major public sector infrastructure projects worth Rs 30,000 crore, which could impact the already sluggish economic growth, the Government has decided to put them on fast track, by addressing logistical and environmental concerns.
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PM calls for transparency in awarding projects
In the wake of irregularities in allocation of natural resources and award of infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for transparency in awarding highway projects to eliminate the possibility of favouritism or ‘crony capitalism'.
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Power, telecom cos raise foreign funds
The Centre had approved companies' fund raising worth Rs 60,950 crore through extÂernal commercial borrowing (ECB) or foreign currency cÂoÂnvertible bonds (FCCB) for inÂfrastructure projects in the last two financial years.
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Infra lender faces the risk of execution and regulatory uncertainties
As the country's most experienced lead finance arranger for infrastructure projects, SBI Capital Markets, turned 25 this year, S Vishvanathan, MD and CEO, projects what
the journey for infrastructure finance and project structuring means, and says uncertainties and other hurdles are temporary in the long run.
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INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY WINS GLOBAL RECOGNITION
We thought you would appreciate us more if you knew that Infrastructure Today stands 20th on a list of 25 Honourable Mentions for Best Single Issue in the world—the only Indian publication in that list.
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INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY WINS GLOBAL RECOGNITION
We thought you would appreciate us more if you knew that Infrastructure Today stands 20th on a list of 25 Honourable Mentions for Best Single Issue in the world—the only Indian publication in that list.
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A campaigner hangs her boots
After a 39-year stint, Shyamala Gopinath, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), stepped down recently. As Deputy Governor, she was in charge of not only the entire portfolio of the monÂetary policy,