Kapil Kaul, Director and CEO, South Asia, CAPA India The Indian aviation industry is facing headwinds in the form of higher costs and lower yields. The environment for the aviation industry has become extremely challenging […]
Smart cities may be creating a buzz in urban development today, but financing the associated infrastructure needs is easier said than done. It is estimated that smart cities would have to raise three times their […]
Indian Railways (IR) has witnessed improvements across areas such as safety, cleanliness, capacity and efficiency over the past couple of years. For example, consequential train accidents have reduced from 118 in 2013-14 to 73 in […]
Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, our beloved former prime minister, changed the narrative of infrastructure development in India by envisioning a future, which had no correlation to the past or present. He dreamt about a connected […]
Venkatesh, Former Chief Executive and Managing Director, L&T IDPL The four large airports in the country at – Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad –have successfully catered to the demand and shown the way for airport […]
Prior to 2004-05, the government undertook almost all infrastructure projects and gave out contracts. The contractors, relatively small in scale and size at that time, needed working capital-type of funding to fulfil those contracts. Infrastructure […]
Bharat Bhargava, Partner (TMT Advisory) and Leader, Telecom Performance Improvement, EY The telecom revolution in India is a remarkable growth story of technology transforming lives. From contributing a mere 1 per cent share to the […]
Gokul Chaudhri, Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP E&P of hydrocarbons: The evolving landscape in India During its 20-year journey, Indian Infrastructure has been witness to several milestones that define the evolution of the upstream […]
Pratik Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, Sterlite Power Transmission Limited Kerala’s legendary Muziris port, heart of the Spice Route, vanished off the grid 3,000 years ago. It was once an established spice trade centre which enabled […]
Passenger traffic at Indian airports has grown at a CAGR of 11.82 per cent during the period 1998-99 to 2017-18. The growth was primarily led by domestic passenger traffic, which grew at a CAGR of […]
Jaideep Ghosh, Partner and National Head, Transport, Leisure and Sports, and Nitu Singh, Manager, Markets, KPMG in India The ports and shipping sector in India has the capability to emerge as an “engine of growth” […]
Passenger traffic has grown at a CAGR of 3.39 per cent during the past 20 years. During this period, the first dip in traffic was reported in 2002-03, following which there was positive growth for […]
The total road network of the country has grown at a CAGR of about 4 per cent in the past 20 years. The share of national highways in the country’s total road network is about […]
Satish Mandhana, Managing Director and Head of Investments, EverSource Capital Sustainability, which is still far from the core of corporate strategy, must move to the centre of corporate strategy going forward. This will create enormous […]
Production for crude oil and natural gas started to decline after 2011-12 due to a significant fall in production from the Krishna Godavari basin Consumption of crude oil in India has shown a constant increase […]
Aircraft movement at Indian airports has grown at a CAGR of 9.36 per cent during the period 1998-99 to 2017-18. An average share of 79 per cent has been noticed in domestic aircraft movement over […]
Freight traffic recorded a CAGR of 5.53 per cent during 1998-99 to 2017-18. It crossed the 1 billion tonne mark in 2012-13 and has been rising continuously since then. Freight earnings grew at a […]
The total length of national highways awarded under NHDP has grown at a CAGR of 17.61 per cent from 763.33 km in 2003-04 to 7,397 km in 2017-18. Further, PPP awards declined sharply from 2012-13 […]
Established, in 1965, Plasser India manufactures the most up-to-date high performance and highly sophisticated machines for railway track maintenance, track laying as well as track renewal. The machines for Indian Railways are tailor-made; focusing on […]
Manish Aggarwal, Partner, Head, Corporate Finance, Energy & Infrastructure, Head, Resolutions & Restructuring, SSG, KPMG in India Investments in the infrastructure sector are critical not only for the economic growth of any country but also […]
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