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Infrastructure Updates: May 2008
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Saturday, May 31, 2008. L&T eyes JVs with Railways : Mr Nayak (President L and T) said: “The Railways has decided to set up new manufacturing capabilities through the public-private-partnership (PPP) route, and we are interested in floating a JV with them.” The news clip is here. Mumbai Metro to be operational through PPP :Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy said. News clip confirms that. Links to this post. Labels: Public private Partnership. Assistance f...
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Infrastructure Updates: Determinants of PPP
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Monday, July 7, 2008. There is an IMF working paper prepared by Mona Hammami, Jean-Francois Ruhashyankiko, and Etienne B. Yehoue (Mona Hammami is a Ph.D. candidate at Oxford University. Jean-Francois Ruhashyankiko and Etienne Yehoue are Economists at the IMF. This paper was initiated while Mona Hammami was a summer intern at the IMF Institute.) In this paper they have put forward some basic questions like :. 1 Government constraints assumes two hypothesis:.
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Infrastructure Updates: Fuel efficiency law need of the hour, says Greenpeace
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Saturday, July 19, 2008. Fuel efficiency law need of the hour, says Greenpeace. Greenpeace also launched a nationwide "Let's Drive Change" consumer campaign to support the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in creating strong mandatory fuel efficiency norms for the car industry in India. 8226; Mandatory "CO2 emissions labelling" on all new cars in the Indian market, to enable consumers to make informed and responsible car buying choices. Http:/ dipp.nic.in/.
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Infrastructure Updates: Electricity for the poor still a dream
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Thursday, July 24, 2008. Electricity for the poor still a dream. Link gives an update on the rural infrastructure scheme launched in 2005 with a target completion in 2009. We are far behind the targeted figure of 125000 villages out of which only around 47000 villages have been electrified till April 2008 and 18000 more can be expected to be electrified by the end of 2009. This statistics can be viewed here. Http:/ www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx. A Man From India.
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Infrastructure Updates: Finding the Missing Link
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Saturday, July 5, 2008. Finding the Missing Link. MSRDC had kept the crieteria for selecting the developer having the lowest concession period. An intersting finding came forward. Mukesh Ambani's consortium had quoted 75 years concession period and Anil Ambani's consortium quoted less than 10 years- What a Mismatch. Http:/ www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx. Http:/ dipp.nic.in/. Http:/ finmin.nic.in/. Http:/ www.businessstandard.com/. A Man From India.
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Infrastructure Updates: PPP projects faces liquidity crunch
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Tuesday, January 13, 2009. PPP projects faces liquidity crunch. He further says even though the impact of slowdown has made raising money a difficult exercise but still PPP projects have three factors in India which make it a relatively safe investment vehicle. Efficient price discovery through competitive bidding process. Transferring commercial risk to public sector. Viability gap funding in case of an unviable projects. More details can be seen here.
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Infrastructure Updates: VGF for metros to be increased to 50 per cent
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Monday, July 7, 2008. VGF for metros to be increased to 50 per cent. Project Monitor reports "A high-level sub-committee on infrastructure has proposed an increase in viability gap funding (VGF) for metro projects by 30 per cent (from 20 per cent now to 50 per cent). A proposal to this effect is already under consideration with the finance ministry for metro projects. Http:/ www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx. Http:/ dipp.nic.in/. Http:/ finmin.nic.in/. A Man From India.
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Infrastructure Updates: Road projects may get more co-drivers
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Road projects may get more co-drivers. News item in ET says tht NHAI is in the process of revising the guidelines for bidding in RFQ statge. Developers went to the court asking for that change since NHAI asks for vast experiences in road sector which only large developers are experts in. I hope this will end up the monopoly of big firms like E and Y/ RITES/ IL&FS etc to name a few. Http:/ www.rbi.org.in/home.aspx. A Man From India.
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Infrastructure Updates: January 2009
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A blog focussing on Infrastructure services. Tuesday, January 13, 2009. PPP projects faces liquidity crunch. He further says even though the impact of slowdown has made raising money a difficult exercise but still PPP projects have three factors in India which make it a relatively safe investment vehicle. Efficient price discovery through competitive bidding process. Transferring commercial risk to public sector. Viability gap funding in case of an unviable projects. More details can be seen here.
