As India’s newest development financing institution (DFI), the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) is targeting Rs.1.2 trillion in loan sanctions for this fiscal year. Samuel Joseph Jebaraj, Deputy Managing Director, tells INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY’s Manish Pant that while deepening its presence in renewables and roads, the DFI is also underwriting municipal bonds and...
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Indian Railways Achieves Record Capex Utilisation in H1 FY26; Safety and Network Expansion Lead Spend
The largest share of spending has gone towards safety works, including investments in the automatic train protection system KAVACH, alongside track renewals, bridges, level crossings and road overbridges. Indian Railways has achieved its highest-ever capital expenditure utilisation, deploying ₹1.42 trillion by the end of September 2025 in FY2025-26. This represents 56.5 per cent of its...
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Green Shoots of Project Finance!
A successful transition to new and renewable energy sources by the world’s fastest-growing major economy won’t only serve as a template for other countries but will also help firmly position it as a global green energy hub. A day after the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana or Prime Minister’s free electricity scheme...
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Avoid Tunnel Vision Syndrome
The Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse signals the risk to our Rs 100 trillion infrastructure investment says PRATAP PADODE The race to build infrastructure is, on one hand, connecting India, and on the other, building India. On both counts, while we stress pace, we ought to look at how we are connecting and how we are building...
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PM Modi asks gram panchayats to have local revenue model
PM visits India's first carbon-neutral village Palli in J&K
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Public Spending: Can the Government keep up the Tempo?
Resumption and broad-basing of private investments has become critical to sustain the share of infrastructure investments.
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Greenfield cities to compete with existing urban centres
Nirup Jayanth, Managing Director, Jurong Consultants (India) & Surbana Jurong Group, Singapore, opines that in a greenfiled city, flexibility and dynamism can be added to infrastructure development, by building in a modular and incremental manner with a cluster-based approach.
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Accelerating Infrastructure Projects
Over the past 10 years, India has successfully executed projects such as the Golden Quadrilateral road programme and port expansion projects in the country.
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ENFORCEMENT OF CONTRACTS Mitigating the Uncertainty
There is a silver lining here: For the past two years, the Modi government has been adopting a broad strategy to substantially improve India's dismal WB ranking for ease of doing business. Concerted efforts have been made to remove serious bottlenecks that exist in the numerous business laws and a "holistic approach"taken.
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Post Budget Analysis | Housing Finance Companies
The Union Budget for FY2018 has maintained focus on meeting the Housing for All agenda by 2022. The allocation is marginally lower than the last fiscal.