Smart & Sustainable? The Case of Bhopal Smart City
The case study of Smart Cities Mission in Bhopal provides an overview of the projects being implemented under the mission in the city. The case of Bhopal Smart City is quite distinctive in the...
Is Development Finance Institution the way forward?
The infrastructure sector remains to be the priority area for investment of the current government to undertake the economic recovery in the post-pandemic times. To press ahead with the projects in this sector last...
World Bank Group and Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project
The World Bank directed its resources to the removal of key barriers to private investment. It played a fundamental enabling role by financing key environmental and social management and institutional strengthening activities, as well...
Infrastructure Sector to Boost Economic Growth
Infrastructure Finance Update November 2020 National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) continues to be the focal point to drive the infrastructure sector in the country. Recently the Central Government has decided to infuse ₹6,000 crore of...
What do human-elephant conflict, smart cities, thermal power plants on a sea coast, C-section births and the recent migrant labour debacle have in common?
To me, the first word that comes to mind is development. Cambridge Dictionary defines development as the process by which something grows or changes and becomes more advanced. In Economics, development is irretrievably tied...
‘Smart Cities Mission’ is anti-poor, non-inclusive, and against the constitutional mandate: Experts
While the 2015 idea of ‘100 Smart Cities Mission’ promised improved standards of living, the reality is that it has forced many people into poverty. Instead of acting as a role model for the...
Stop Anakkayam Hydel Project Movement: Another Stellar Resistance to Funding Disasters
Though appearing as a tiny speck in the larger upheaval of distressed happenings everywhere in India, a small proposed project in Kerala has sparked a vibrant coming together of around 100 environmental and protests...
Asset monetisation- A New way to finance the Infrastructure sector in India
Infrastructure Finance Update October 2020 This month in Infrastructure Finance Update – the government looks to seek the Parliament’s approval for Rs 37,000-crore additional spending on infrastructure development in the second batch of supplementary...
Smart Cities: The need for a critical engagement
Cities are ever dynamic. The dynamic landscape of cities is a reflection, a miniature representation of societal interactions throughout history, static in its built forms and but constantly reinventing in contemporary ways of living....
इन्दौर में स्मार्ट सिटी एक केस स्टडी
इन्दौर (मध्यप्रदेष) में स्मार्ट सिटी परियोजना की केस स्टडी में इस विचार और इन परियोजनाओं के अन्तर्गत होने वाले विकास कार्यों का सिंहावलोकन शामिल है। इसकी शुरूआत इन्दौर शहर से संबंधित जानकारियों और किस...
Infrastructure Finance Update September 2020
This month in Infrastructure Finance Update it appears that the discussions on a new Development Finance Institution (DFI) continue. It has been noted that earlier “Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), such as ICICI, IDBI, IFCI...
Smart City Mission: Financial Progress, Sustainability and Impact on Urban Local Bodies
Inaugurating the Smart City Mission (SCM) in June 2016 Prime Minister Modi said, “If anything has the potential to mitigate poverty it is our cities. It is now our responsibility to provide strength to...
Infrastructure Finance Update, August 2020
(Infrastructure Finance Update is a monthly feature by CFA on the infrastructure sector with focus on financing. The feature is based on the monitoring of trends in infrastructure space through news reports, media coverage,...
Infrastructure Finance Update, July 2020 –
This month in the Infrastructure Finance update, the finance ministry has reached out to major infrastructure ministries like railways and roads and highways, asking them to step up spending to meet budgeted expenditures. Due...
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