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Sebi invites comments on additional proposals on REITS, InvITs issuing subordinate units. Details here

Key objectives of the consultative paper are to seek comments, views and suggestions from the public on the proposals pertaining to the framework for issuance of subordinate units by REITs and InvITs

1 min read11 Jan 2024
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Real TRUTH Of Nitin Gadkari's Road Infrastructure Progress - 2003 VS 2023 Case study | Mint Explain

Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said total length of the national highways in the country increased by about 59% in the last nine years. As a result of this expansion, India now has the second largest road network, after the US.Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Gadkari said: Total length of National Highways was 91,287 km in 2013-14, which increased to 1,45,240 km in 2022-23, which is a rise of more than 59% during this period.

1 Sep 2023
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Why did Canada halt ties with China's answer to World Bank | Mint Primer | Mint

Canada’s government has announced it will halt its work at the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The dramatic move comes after allegations surfaced that the Chinese Communist Party interfered substantially in the organisation’s work. India’s voting power in the AIIB is second only to China’s and the country has been a key beneficiary of the bank's loans.

3 Jul 2023
News

Icra assigns AA+ stable rating to India’s first education infrastructure InvIT

The investment trust aims to acquire a 100% shareholding in seven special purpose vehicles and a 74% shareholding in four SPVs

1 min read23 May 2023
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Can India's dash to build roads lift exports? | Mint Primer | Mint

As national elections draw near, public spending has taken an upturn in India. The government is relying on an infrastructure build-up to multiply people’s incomes and support economic growth. Paced-up highway construction has been placed in the spotlight by the Centre’s aim to construct a record 45km of highways daily in 2023-24 on an average. This would add up to 16,000km during the year, exceeding the last high of 13,298km achieved in 2020-21 at a rate of 36.4km per day. Highway construction had slowed after that, with our daily rate dropping to 29km and 24km in 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively. Let us explore whether India's infrastructure boom can propel economic growth.

11 May 2023
News

Transport ministry mulls to raise ₹35,000 cr via asset monetisation: Official

The transport ministry monetises its assets under three modes--toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model, Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT), and project-based financing.

1 min read23 Apr 2023
Companies

India Grid commissions its first battery energy storage system

According to the company, it will not only reduce our emissions but also act as a prototype for expanding our presence in energy transition opportunities in the sector

1 min read5 Apr 2023
Videos

#Future of Infrastructure Investments: InvITs in India and way forward

In the second dispatch of the series 'Future of infrastructure investments', we deep dive into the practical functioning of InvIT (infrastructure investment trust) to understand what makes them the next big infra story. In a fireside chat with Harsh Shah, CEO, IndiGrid, we unravel key aspects such as: challenges in mobilizing institutional capital to the infrastructure space, how InvITs are becoming attractive asset class for retail investors, what makes transmission assets in particular attractive. The chat also dispels myths about the skill sets that investment managers who run InvITs bring to the table, do InvITs suffer from concentration risks and so on. Shah also opens up on the expansion plans of IndiGrid, on how they are building it out and the way forward. Watch the video for more.

22 Sep 2020
Budget 2019

Private sector infra investment is key to achieving a high growth trajectory

The Survey calls for higher flow of private capital in the infrastructure space as the govt can only spend up to a certain limitAccording to the survey, India needs to spend 7-8% of its gross domestic product on infrastructure every year

2 min read5 Jul 2019
Market

Capital goods: Investor focus shifts to project execution as capex cycle wanes

Both the BSE capital goods index and the BSE India infrastructure index have underperformed the broad market as weak investment capex cycle hints at lower order inflows in the coming quarters

2 min read8 Jan 2019
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