India’s power sector has seen several sweeping changes in the recent past,” notes P.R. Jaishankar, chief general manager, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL). “Generation has increased significantly, domestic coal production has improved and the […]
Sanjeev Kumar Lohia is the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of the world’s largest transit-oriented development (TOD) and public-private partnership (PPP) initiative – the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC). At IRSDC, […]
Kirby Building Systems will deploy Trimble’s Tekla Structures as its building information modelling (BIM) software for facilitating the construction of accurate and cost-effective pre-engineered steel structures. The Tekla BIM software allows for greater cooperation and […]
Cochin Shipyard Limited’s (CSL) chairman and managing director (CMD), Madhu S. Nair, has 27 years of professional experience with the shipyard. He joined as an executive trainee in June 1988, worked in the entire gamut […]
In October 2017, GE Transportation delivered the first of 1,000 diesel-electric Evolution series locomotives at Mundra port. It is a part of the $2.5 billion agreement signed between GE and Indian Railways (IR) in November […]
MAN Trucks India flagged “The MAN Expedition”, a pan-Indian drive, to create greater visibility for its haulage range of vehicles. The expedition comprises five haulage trucks which will start from Pune, Dhanbad and Kochi and […]
Given the speed of urbanisation in the country, there is an urgent need to develop mass public transit systems as quickly as possible. Indeed, a number of metro rail and bus rapid transit (BRT) projects […]
The infrastructure sector, which accounts for over half the demand for construction activities, is receiving the much-needed push from the government, which is planning to spend $60 billion on infrastructure in the current fiscal year. […]
A well-planned integrated urban transport system is of utmost relevance for Indian cities that are experiencing ever-increasing volumes of traffic. Today, these cities are characterised by increasing levels of traffic congestion, overcrowded and inconvenient buses […]
Time and again the government has reiterated its focus on infrastructure development. The Rs 3.6 trillion budget allocation to the sector for 2017-18 as compared to Rs 2.2 trillion in 2015-16 is a testament to […]
The urban mass transit (UMT) segment continues to be funded largely by the government, with allocations from the central and state governments. Multilateral funding too plays an important role. Upfront financing of UMT projects is […]
The construction sector has been exhibiting dismal growth in the past few quarters, particularly in the last quarter of 2016-17, during which the growth rate turned negative. This was primarily on account of the government’s […]
The construction sector is one of the major contributors to economic growth, accounting for about 8 per cent of the country’s GDP. The sector has critical forward and backward linkages, with most of the construction […]
The government – central as well as state – continues to fund the majority of urban mass transit (UMT) projects. Private sector participation in the sector, particularly in the metro rail segment, has so far […]
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 […]
Over the past few years, the government has begun to focus on modern transportation systems such as personal rapid transit (PRT), trams, hyperloop, skyways, regional rapid transport systems (RRTSs), etc. A total of 18 such […]
The construction equipment industry went through a torrid time between 2012 and 2015, during which growth plummeted. It was only last year that the revival process began and sales started getting back to 2011 levels. […]
Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems have emerged as a successful mode of public transport to solve issues such as congestion, delays, accidents, etc. The major advantages of this mode lie in its high capacity design, […]
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