Private players have been shying away from PPP in water management due to lack of transparency in the system, longer gestation of return on investment and above all RoI is much lower compared to other infrastructure projects. With upsurge in economic activities and rapid growth in urbanisation, proper water management system has to be in place. According to a recent PwC report, almost 590 million people are expected to live in Indian cities by the year 2030.
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The PPP-EPC Cycle
Periodically alternating between promoting PPP-led projects and more controlled EPC may circumvent investor interest uncertainty.
India’s first solar-powered WLLP project
A solar lighting system as a part of the project Discovery City is being developed by Ramky Infra on PPP basis in Hyderabad.
Soaring investment potential
Despite a largely sluggish SEZ segment, uncertain cabotage laws and now a TAMP regulation on lower tariffs
EPC road contracts RFQ for 4000 km
AK Upadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Roads, Transport & Highways in his inaugural address at the INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT, announced that RFQs for 4000 km of road contracts would be
The key differentiator between completion and excellence
Which do we prefer—that projects are systematically completed in time within costs, or that they thrive under a bright leader who can transform it beyond what it is meant to be?
Growth with responsibility
If growth is looked at as a number without relative comparison with the general life improvement of the common man, it remains an anomaly, an evasive terminology for showing
Banks shy of funding PPP projects in highways
Reports suggest that petroleum and natural gas and highways sectors witnessed maximum number of delayed projects owing to lack of funding or issues like statutory clearaÂnces.
KPT to set up oil jetty
Kandla Port Trust (KPT) plans to set up a Rs 233 crore oil jetty on build, operate, transfer (BOT) basis under public private partnership (PPP) mode.
Task force for airport proj
A task force on financing plan for development of airports has been constituted under the Chairmanship of a member of Planning Commission.

