Infrastructure continues to be a focus sector in the Indian economy and is seen as a catalyst to boost overall economic growth. It continues to attract attention not only from the government for creating...
It was in November 2020, soon after cities unlocked based on the guidelines from the Ministry of Home Affairs directing states and Union Territories to take a decision on removing restrictions on travel, gatherings...
This briefing paper is focused on the recently announced National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP). The paper discusses the concepts such as asset monetisation, the Indian economic context for asset monetisation, the intense focus on infrastructure...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide USD 350 million loan to improve access to urban services in India by accelerating policy actions and reforms to enhance service delivery and promote performance-based central fiscal...
Kerala’s flagship Silver Line project, a semi high speed rail corridor passing through 11 districts between Thiruvananthpuram and Kasargod is not technically a “Bullet Train” like the one proposed between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, but...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above. Of the 1,680 such projects, 438 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit...
India has been projected as one of the world's most attractive investment destinations as a result of massive economic and policy reforms over the last three decades, focusing on liberalisation and globalisation. The Indian...
The Tata Group will take over state-owned Air India, marking a successful end to the government’s bid to privatise the national carrier after having failed to sell a majority stake in it in 2018....
Compliance by financial institutions with ESG requirements for credit decisions, and disclosures has become increasingly prevalent over the last two decades. While some of these requirements are imposed via legislation, others have been voluntarily...
The World Bank has outlined the role it can play as India looks to fund its ambitious National Rail Plan over the next 30 years, which envisages almost 8,000 km of high-speed corridors and...
यह कोर्स विशेष रूप से नागरिक समाज समूहों, कार्यकर्ताओं और मध्यम एवं छोटे शहरों के छात्रों को उनके आस-पास के क्षेत्र में इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर में बड़े पैमाने पर निवेश, शासन संरचना में परिवर्तन आदि के...
A few months ago, a news made headlines, doing rounds in the social media about how it was a matter of much shame that India had fallen behind Bangladesh on the metric of Per...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a pipeline of assets the government is looking to monetise to collect about Rs 6 trillion to partly fund its ambitious infrastructure projects over four years ending 2024-25. The...
“The government is claiming they are giving only temporary rights for certain duration (through the National Monetisation Pipeline). The key question is how the government will repay this investment that the private companies have...
The infrastructure sector is one of the key sectors for India to achieve higher economic growth rates and requires major investments into projects to push the growth rates higher. The infrastructure sector requires long-term...