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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
A two-day regional seminar was held in Bilaspur on 30th Nov- 1st Dec 2019 organized by, All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM) Chhattisgarh–Vidarbha region, Mausam, Beyond Copenhagen Network and Centre for Financial Accountability...
The Smart Cities Project, since its introduction in India, has garnered both applause and criticism and despite the mixed response, has successfully rewired the very imagination of the Indian city. This article attempts to...
The story of a small town in Karnataka and the price it is paying for ill-conceived development Jalappa’s family has lived in Karnataka’s Tumkur for over four generations now. About 100 meters off the...