The shortcomings of India´s infrastructure are often lamented. But statistical aggregates suggest that the South Asian nation has caught up to - or even surpassed - China in some respects. In other areas, it is not far behind.
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Happy New Infrastructure!
Clearly, the government had saved the best for the last, with a flurry of policy decisions at the year end. Infrastructure is clearly in for better times in 2016. The year 2015 was generally a positive one for the economy, although bumpy.
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Roads & highways – The road ahead: Challenges and possibilities
While the focus is on sprucing up national and state highways, and rightly so, the government must not forget about city, district and rural roads that need to be upgraded to address the burgeoning traffic.
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2016 – An Infrastructure Leap Year
United Nations General Assembly has declared 2016 to be the year of ¨pulses¨. With pulse prices going sky-high in 2015, another source of protein for the poor people has well-nigh gone out of reach in our country.
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Mission Solar
India´s approach of focussing largely on utility-scale solar parks and aggressive pricing has attracted a lot of scepticism. The renewable energy sector has shown tremendous growth over the last two years.
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CAG audit threat looms large
The Delhi High Court judgment on Section 20 of the CAG Act may render PPP projects unattractive in infrastructure sectors without a pervasive regulatory authority. In the recent judgment on CAG audit of Delhi distribution companies
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Karnataka Calling
The stage is set. The Karnataka State Government is geared up to host Invest Karnataka 2016, its biggest and grandest global investors meet ever.
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India needs Rs.31 lakh cr for infra in five years: Crisil
The funding need for building India´s infrastructure is large, said a White Paper on Infrastructure Financing by Crisil Ratings and industry body Assocham.
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Nation´s infra sector gets major Japanese boost
India´s infrastructure - sectors such as roads, metro rail, industrial corridor, shipping and urban development - are set to get a boost with Japan committing
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Report of Kelkar committee on PPP model released
The Union Ministry of Finance on 28 December 2015 released the report of the Committee on Revisiting and Revitalising Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model.