A host of policy initiatives, new and emerging technologies and equipment, and focus on high quality roads, seamless connectivity and sustainable practices are the key factors driving road sector development in India. Road construction and award […]
With the growing consumer demand, urban water supply systems have been struggling to provide adequate, reliable and safe drinking water. Some of the major steps that need to be taken in order to meet consumer […]
Water supply is being rendered only as an intermittent service in most parts of India. The concept of 24×7 water supply has thus garnered significant interest in the country. Unlike previous attempts, which were focused […]
An efficient and integrated urban transportation system is critical to a city’s development plans. At present, about 34 per cent of the country’s population resides in urban areas. Traffic congestion is the most pervasive transport […]
The majority of urban mass transit (UMT) projects continue to be funded by the central and state governments. The experience with private sector participation in the sector, particularly in the urban rail segment, has been […]
India’s maritime transport growth is driven by developments in the global economy – growth in world output and trade – as well as the domestic economy. The past four-five years have witnessed weak world trade […]
The past year has been an important one for the port sector. Several key developments have taken place centred on port modernisation and the promotion of ease of doing business. Progress was noted in the […]
Private participation is increasingly being sought at Indian ports to supplement public investments and bring in efficiency. Participation has been invited in the development of berths, container terminals, new ports, mechanisation of facilities, etc. With […]
The cost of energy has always been a matter of great concern for Indian Railways (IR). Electrification of the existing network has attracted considerable attention and big targets have been set. In a move to […]
The Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) was constituted in April 1997 to serve as an independent authority for regulating tariffs, both cargo and vessel related, as well as rates for lease of properties with […]
Metro rail systems provide high capacity public transit and are highly capital-intensive projects. In India, the first metro system was introduced in Kolkata in 1984. After almost two decades, the next metro was launched in […]
The road sector has gone through a phase of course correction with the evolution of a wide variety of implementation models. These models and their variants were introduced to cope with the financial and structural […]
The Indian railway sector has seen an increase in private investment in the past few years, specifically in the form of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Overall, the PPP experience of different stakeholders in the sector has […]
The construction industry is expected to witness significant opportunity in the coming years. The government is planning to spend $60 billion on infrastructure in the current fiscal year. Given the strong government spending, companies are […]
The privatisation of Indian airports started in 2000, with the Cochin International Airport being the first to be privatised. At present, there are five privately managed international airports in the country, developed through public-private partnerships […]
Recently, in April 2017, NITI Aayog released a three-year action agenda laying out India’s development strategy. Infrastructure is a key component of the action plan which is for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. For infrastructure, […]
Despite the slow uptake of the public private partnership (PPP) model in the railway sector, the past few years have marked several milestones in PPP-based rail projects. In 2015-16, Indian Railways (IR) generated private investments […]
The National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) was introduced in 1998 and provided a new trajectory for road development in India. In the initial phases of the NHDP, public funding was the default mode, till public-private […]
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