The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planned to construct 1,000 km of expressways on build-operate-transfer (BOT) model.
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NHAI earns over Rs 17,000 cr premium
Increasing interest by private players in the highways sector has helped NHAI award 17 projects worth over Rs 25,500 crore in the last six months, leaving the authority richer by over Rs 17,000 crore in the form of premium.
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We need several $10 bn funds: Montek
FICCI’s infrastructure summit in New Delhi, marked by large participation from all sectors, did not witness remarkable announcements, but for the reiteration that infrastructure is likely to miss the 11th Plan target by more than 10 percent.How do we make banks’ infrastructure lending more long term with less mismatches? Well, create solutions outside bbanks, says Planning Commission’s high profile Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Inaugurating the India Infrastructure Summit 2011
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Banks' alternative to infra lending: Good step, but…
Finally, banks can get completely rid of their limits imposed by asset-liability mismatch (ALM). Although schemes like take out financing exist and there have been numerous attempts to revive the corporate bond market, most of the schemes and efforts seem to have gone in vain.
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GMR bags first mega highway project
GMR Group has emerged as the selected bidder through international competitive bidding for six laning of 555-km long Kishangarh-Udaipur-AhmeÂdabad highway, the first brownfield mega highway project of the country.
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GVK arm bags highway project in MP
GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd has announced that GVK Transportation Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary, has been chosen through an international competitive bidding process to take up the four-laning of Shivpuri-Dewas section of National Highway No 3 in Madhya Pradesh.
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R-Infra to buy stranded road projects
Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) is planning to buy out licences to build road projects from companies which had bagged these through the bidding route but are then unable to proceed.
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Negative VGF: A new angle in confidence?
Roads Minister CP Joshi recently remarked that the success of NVGF bids reaffirms the confidence of developers in the efforts taken by the government in the highways sector, and that investors see prospects in the road sector.
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NHAI has shifted 100% risk to developer: Experts
With shift from the erstwhile revenue-sharing model to fixed premium model under NVGF, NHAI has managed to reduce its own risk. Four of the best road sector experts explain how NVGF works and why it reflects increased competition.
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The fact that bidders believe in good growth over a period of 20-30 years is a vote of confidence
The net present value of the bids NHAI has received this FY from NVGF from 12 projects on DBFOT is to the tune of Rs 16,500 crore. JN Singh, Member (Finance), NHAI, explains to Shashidhar Nanjundaiah why this limited revenue stream will go a long way in all-round road development.