What killed Modi’s Dream Project? | The Money Trail
Smart Cities Mission, the first mega project of the NDA government, has turned out to be a flop. The 2 lakh crore project even after 7 years of work is far from completion, with...
Fishermen protesting against Vizhinjam port demanding rehabilitation and livelihood
Infrastructure Finance Update August 2022 Infrastructure finance update for the month of August 2022 primarily focuses on five sectors, namely, railways, roads and highways, ports, real estate and telecom. The majority of the news...
Infrastructure Projects In and Around Protected Areas Need to Be Held Financially Accountable
India is home to 96,000 species of animals and 47,000 species of plants and nearly half the world’s aquatic plants. Conservation of wild flora and fauna has been one of the key thrust areas...
Bharatmala Pariyojna Project expected to exceed the budget by 100%
Infrastructure remains the key focus for investment in sectors like roads and highways, real estate, ports and smart cities. Various initiatives are being taken to promote private participation and investment in infrastructure sectors, in...
445 Infra Projects Show Overruns of Rs. 4.4 trillion, 557 Delayed
Infrastructure Finance Update, January 2022 The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects of Rs 150 crore and above. Of 1,673 such projects, 445 projects, each entailing investment of Rs 150 crore...
Infrastructure Projects Hit by Cost Overrun and Delays
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...
Tata Sons wins Air India with an offer of Rs 18,000 crore
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....
Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan
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...
Is the New DFI Answer to India’s Infrastructural Challenges?
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...
IFC Sanctioned $250 Million Loan to HDFC For Affordable Housing
HDFC Ltd has got a loan of $250 million from International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank Group, to be used by India’s largest housing finance company for green housing....
NHAI Plans to Offer 32 Projects for Monetization this Financial Year
In infrastructure sector last month, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) offer 32 projects of the length of 1,500 km under the Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT) model this financial year as it chalks out a...
Focus of Economic Survey 2020-2021 on Infrastructure Sector
The Union Budget 2021-22, presented on 1st February, focused majorly on infrastructure sector to increase economic growth rates by initiating several new projects and announcing the setting up of a Development Finance Institution for...
Unwrapping Economic Survey 2020-21
Three days prior to the Union Budget presentation for the year 2021, Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitaraman introduced Economic Survey on 29th January, 2021 for the FY 2020-2021. It was prepared by Department of Economics...
De-coding National Infrastructure Pipeline
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...
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