Editorial

The construction industry is the highest employment generator outside of agriculture and also the largest consumer of steel, cement, bitumen, geosynthetics and other materials. It is, however, highly dependent on infrastructure development for activity – […]

There have been some green shoots of hope for infrastructure financing in the past year, despite the downbeat sentiment due to a decelerating economy. However, new problems have also surfaced. On the plus side of […]

The experience across the UMT sector in India can at best be described as patchy. There has been rapid uptake of metro rail systems. Metros will be operational across 25 cities within the next few […]

Both positive and negative trends are visible in the road sector. Project awards dropped sharply in 2018-19 as the economic slowdown impacted the sector. However, actual construction continued to see a rising trend. In the […]

The past year has seen a lot of activity in the aviation sector. Though there’s been a slowdown in traffic in the past six months, breakneck growth through the past six years has led to […]

Asharp deterioration in the GDP growth rate has led to concerns about the state of the economy. There are differences of opinion about the cause of decline: is it structural or cyclical? However, there is […]

Managing India’s growing energy demand will be a major challenge through till 2030. The country imports over 80 per cent of its crude and over 30 per cent of its gas, and demand is slated […]

The maritime transport sector is heavily dependent on the global trade cycle and that, unfortunately, looks as though it is going into a decline. This means less cargo activity and lower shipping rates for a […]

The reform momentum has slowed down across the power sector in the past year. AT&C losses rose after a couple of years of substantial reductions. The gap between the average cost of supply and the […]

Despite the development of alternative modes of transportation, IR remains the key player in India’s transport and logistics sector. It performs two key roles. It has the crucial economic task of transporting freight and passengers […]

Mining contributes to around 2.5 per cent of GDP. It could, however, contribute a lot more, given India’s abundance of natural resources and the focus on infrastructural development that guarantees strong demand for minerals. However, […]

The construction industry and its value chain and ancillaries depend heavily on infrastructure activity for growth. The sector is also the largest employment generator outside of agriculture. The past two years have seen improvements in […]

The past few months have been challenging for the infrastructure sector as financiers have faced multiple issues. While inflation remained under control, banks suffering from a combination of toxic loans and poor liquidity remained very […]

Rapid urbanisation has been a driver of growth. But it has also stressed inadequate urban infrastructure to breaking point. Public transport is one of the many areas of concern. Poor public transport leads to more […]

The road sector was in deep trouble some five years ago. Bidders were highly optimistic during the 2010-12 period and made bids (including offering negative grants) that more or less guaranteed financial trouble. Indeed, many […]

The civil aviation sector has seen a lot of activity in the past year or so. There has been expansion in airport capacity and the new RCS has taken off in an encouraging fashion. A […]

By Alok Brara, Publisher, Indian Infrastructure With this issue, we celebrate our twentieth anniversary. We take this opportunity to reflect on the journey of infrastructure development in India. The issue provides a view of the […]

India is the world’s fastest growing large economy and energy demand is growing in tandem with fast macroeconomic growth. India is already the world’s largest importer of crude, and the fourth largest importer of natural […]

The maritime sector’s fortunes ebb and surge with trade activity. Global trade has been slow for the past several years and that has adversely affected growth. The Indian ports and shipping sector has seen slow […]

The power sector saw several interesting developments last year. For the first time ever, in 2017-18, capacity additions in the renewables category – mainly in solar – overtook conventional capacity additions.  Power lines reached every […]