Essar Projects has seen a fair amount of movement in the EPC market in India. NHAI's long overdue push to align commercial and contractual environment for augmenting India's road infrastructure began to deliver results in FY2012.
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Infrascape 2012 | Power: Revised SBDs can address foreign coal uncertainty
This year the power sector has been much in focus for reaÂlising the high GDP growth foreÂcasts in the country. Compared to previous plans, the 11th Five Year Plan, ending this fiscal, is expected to culminate with one of the better performances.
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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.
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Power Minister invites US cos to invest in India
Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde invited the US companies to invest in India's power sector. Addressing the US-India Economic Opportunities and Synergies Summit in Chicago organised by FICCI in association with The Executive Club of Chicago, Shinde said India offered lucrative investment opportunities in power sector and the US investors should come forward to benefit from that opportunity
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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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Poor policy hits power FDI
NTPC has blamed insufficient 'politico-administrative' support to tackle commercial losses and poor health of government utilities for low foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the Indian power sector.
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PFS' Rs 1.5 bn infra bonds
PTC India Financial Services (PFS) plans to raise up to Rs 150 crore through issue of tax-saving bonds in the current fiscal.
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Min okays Rs 50,000 cr electric fund
In a move to help quicken the flagging pace of distribution reforms in the power sector, the Union Finance Ministry has approved the creation of a Rs 50,000 crore National Electricity Fund for attracting investment in this area.
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BUDGET MUST ADDRESS OBJECTIVES
Last year, roads and highways was the "happening" sector, with a lot of hype and commendable action. Against a target of national highways that turned out to be beyond ambitious, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had only completed construction of 1,156 km by December 2010 at 4.28 km per day-way less than the targeted 7 km-per-day.