Roads & Bridges

The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is a Rs 111 trillion infrastructure pipeline, spread over a timeline of five years from financial year 2019 to financial year 2025. Ap­p­roximately 39 per cent of the overall investment comes from […]

India Infrastructure Research recently hosted its 17th annual conference on “Road Development in India”. The conference highlighted the emerging trends and recent prog­ress in the sector, identified new opportunities and discussed future strategies to fast-track […]

The incorporation of National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corpora­tion Limited (NHIDCL) has resulted in an increased level of activity in the north-eastern region’s road sector. NHIDCL undertakes nat­ional highway and strategic road projects for the […]

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched on December 25, 2000, with the objective of providing single, all-weather road connectivity to all eligible unconnected habitations of the designated population size (more than 500 […]

Infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) are being sought after by infrastructure companies for recycling capital. While a number of private developers have already floated InvITs, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) became the second public […]

The 341 km Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, inaugurated on November 16, 2021, is the lar­ge­st infrastructure project to be completed by the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Deve­lopment Authority (UPEIDA). This expressway will […]

The government’s focus on infrastructure investments gave way to a fresh app­ro­­a­ch – to look beyond traditional financing sources to fund the Rs 111 trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) over the five-year period from the […]

Road infrastructure plays a critical role in the growth of the Indian economy since about 70 per cent of the goods traffic and 90 per cent of the passenger traffic is carried by the road […]

When the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed in the country in early 2020, the road sector faced unanticipated disruptions, ranging from derailed project execution to revenue losses due to the suspension of toll collection and a […]

The road sector has shown significant progress during the past year. The government has been taking initiatives to ensure adequate fund availability for highway development and attract more private investment. Besides, the focus on quality […]

The government has been taking a number of initiatives to help the road construction industry mitigate the impact of Covid-19. With recovery setting in, the outlook for the sector seems stable. Rajeshwar Burla, vice-president and […]

Despite being one of the worst-hit sectors of the Indian economy in the first half of 2020-21, the road sector witnessed a turnaround in the second half. Government initiatives to infuse liquidity into the sector […]