The government has yet to assure domestic and international players in water that development, not merely fixing infra issues, is indeed in place, says Ramani Iyer.
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Roads & Bridges | Status report: The elusion of enhanced standards
While the extent of the highway network keeps increasing, its efficiency still remains questionable, While National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and developers are out to change the face of Indian roads, the ground level factors are not changing.
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Prepare grounds for offer
One of the final chunks of the government’s accountability in the growth of infrastructure could be in jeopardy if a parliamentary panel headed by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Sumitra Mahajan gets its way.
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Parallel tracks
Piecemeal approach to transport, devoid of integration into a city’s ecosystem, continues to deter holistic urban growth. With urban India set to house 600 million people by 2031,
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We need to rethink governments structure for better project implementation
Urban transport can be profitable, but do our city governments have the powers and the capability? Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Union Ministry of Urban Development, who was recently in Mumbai to attend the Traffic Infra Tech Expo,
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Indias infra sectors seek Canadian participation
A report on the conference in Toronto that focused on why India is lucrative as an investment destination. It is a nation under construction. As India’s Secretary of Road Transport and Highways AK Upadhyay said, the country’s
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Consortiums for Rs 88 bn MTHL project
In order to implement the Rs 88 billion Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) project through public-private partnership (PPP), the impleÂmenÂÂting authority shortlisted five consortia.
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Emerging Kerala 2012: Business Meet
Fast-tracking the campaign to position Kerala as a thriving industrial state and hotbed for investments, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today made an impassioned plea to top guns of the industry and corporate
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The Predictability Issue
There are many ways in which private developers and contractors can (and do) jeopardise their own balance sheets. But given that the private sector works on profits and viability, it depends on the government in PPP
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Our infra lending will be cautious this year, based….
A ninety-three-year-old Union Bank of India just got a new head honcho. The genial CMD is a sleeves-rolled-up leader much of whose experience has been in operations, and will lead a lending portfolio of Rs 27,000 crore to infrastructure