Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP have set up India Gas Solutions, a 50:50 joint ventÂure company, to globally souÂrce and market natural gas in India. It will also develop infrastructure for transportation and marketing of the gas.
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Rs 25,000 cr mega infra projects cleared
The government gave regulatory clearances to three mega infrastructure projects involving an investment of Rs 25,000 crore. These are the first among a few projects the government has shortlisted to be put on a fast track.
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Infrastructure: New catalyst in the equation
Canada's steady and ongoing investment in India means that the confidence and basic market understanding are pre-eminent among Canadian companies. Jai Mavani explains what the entry points, facilitations and barriers are to invest in India's infrastructure.
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Fulfilling today without compromising tomorrow
India's water situation has deteriorated alarmingly, so conventional measures to augment water levels are not enough. As the world moved this year closer to making water infrastructure a sustainable activity, India lags behind.
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A new opportunity to participate in Indian infrastructure
The government is finally preparing to launch its first IDF this year, albeit with a $3 billion corpus open to domestic investors alone. Vishal Shah and Smit Sheth hail IDF as a good beginning, but contend that the definition of infrastructure needs to be sharpened.
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Not enough credit enhancements
While in theory, the idea behind setting up IDFs is sound, the two structures proposed by the Ministry of Finance at present do not appear to have enough credit enhancement mechanisms to bring in domestic and foreign long term institutional investors, says Amit Dinakar.
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Banks should be nodal agencies to IDF
S Vishvanathan, MD and CEO, SBI Capital Markets, explains why the regulators of IDF have taken a rather cautious approach in developing it, and suggests that banks can take on the initial risk and then pass it on to IDFs-thus retaining the asset throughout the project.
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The New PPP Policy: The devil lies in the detail
The government recently decided the PPP policy needs clarity and drafted a new one. The new document, however, dwells too much in generalisations. A reward/disincentivisation should be a necessary part of awards, say Amit Kapur and Vishnu Sudarsan.
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Canada Special
In the last year, several province-level delegations have visited India and explored opportunities in infrastructure and other domains. On 11-12 November, C-IBC's Canada-India Business Forum in Mumbai hopes to attract investors to Indian infrastructure, services and natural resources.
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Sowing seeds in the right land
Sameer K Bhatnagar presents an investment landscape for Canadian companies to invest in India and outlines the major sectors where opportunities lie. These are interesting times for infrastructure comÂpanies in India.