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Infrastructure Finance

Increasing pace of infrastructure development in India – A brief commentary from the sidelines

The infrastructure sector has been highlighted by the government agencies and the financial institutions to be a key driver for the Indian economy, propelling India’s overall economic development. Infrastructure development enjoys intense focus from...

Read more February 17, 2023 at 10:51 am Anuradha Munshi, Gaurav Dwivedi and Nishank

Government open bids for International Transhipment Port at Great Nicobar Island costing Rs. 41,000 Cr

INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE UPDATE | JANUARY, 2023 The infrastructure finance update for the month of January 2023 primarily focuses on three sectors, namely, railways, roads and highways, and ports. The last month’s news coverage also focuses...

Read more February 9, 2023 at 2:39 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more September 22, 2022 at 2:56 pm CFA

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...

Read more September 20, 2022 at 12:48 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more September 9, 2022 at 3:38 pm Nishank

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...

Read more April 5, 2022 at 5:56 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more February 8, 2022 at 11:40 am Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more December 9, 2021 at 2:54 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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....

Read more November 18, 2021 at 1:39 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more October 18, 2021 at 11:35 am Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more September 10, 2021 at 10:29 am Gaurav Dwivedi

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....

Read more August 11, 2021 at 3:12 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more June 24, 2021 at 9:49 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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...

Read more February 26, 2021 at 4:46 pm CFA

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...

Read more February 26, 2021 at 4:39 pm Shivani Dwivedi
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