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ET Bureau | Updated: Sep 07, 2016, 10.06 AM IST

BENGALURU: Karnataka should grab Union


Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari's final
offer towards the longpending peripheral ring
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road project for Bengaluru, say experts.

19 "I have told the chief minister that if the cost is


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Rs 8,000 crore, you give 50 per cent, and we
"I have told the chief minister that if the will give 50 per cent and construct the road,"
cost is Rs 8,000 crore, you give 50 per Gadkari said in response to a question at the
cent, and we will give 50 per cent and
ET Startup Awards last week. "This was my last
construct the road," Gadkari said.
offer. I am yet to get a response to this," the
minister said.

The 65-km road project will connect four highways - Tumakuru Road, Ballari
Road, Old Madras Road and Hosur Road - to provide seamless connectivity
with Kanakapura Road and Mysuru Road, two other major highways connecting
Bengaluru to Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

The construction cost is estimated at Rs 3,850 crore while compensation for


landowners is pegged at Rs 8,100 crore. Karnataka was counting on central
assistance for the project after the Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA) refused funding for land acquisition. The Karnataka government wanted
the Centre to foot three-fourth of the land acquisition cost.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should lap up Gadkari's offer, Biocon chief Kiran
Mazumdar-Shaw told ET.
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PTI | Updated: Aug 04, 2017, 10.20 PM IST

NEW DELHI: India today signed a loan


agreement with Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB) for financing of USD 329 million for
Gujarat Rural Roads Project, a finance ministry
statement said.

0 The agreement was signed by Joint Secretary


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"The objective of the project is to (MI) in the Ministry of Finance, Sameer Kumar
improve the rural road connectivity and Khare, on behalf of India and Vice President
accessibility to 1,060 villages in all the
and Chief Investment Officer, AIIB, D J Pandian
33 districts in Gujarat state benefiting
on behalf of the AIIB.
about 8 million people.

"The objective of the project is to improve the


rural road connectivity and accessibility (by providing all weather road
connectivity) to 1,060 villages in all the 33 districts in Gujarat state benefiting
about 8 million people.

"The project will also benefit the service providers such as public transport
operators, educational institutions, hospitals, local markets and traders," the
statement said.

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PTI | Updated: Aug 04, 2017, 02.17 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has


sought to fast-track key infrastructure projects,
including the Char Dham scheme, and reached
out to all the stakeholders for quicker
clearances.
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He minced no words saying there will be zero
He minced no words saying there will tolerance to any delay.
be zero tolerance to any delay.

Chairing a meeting of a group of ministers on


infrastructure last night, Gadkari said 18 proposals relating to the ambitious
Char Dham project were scuttled in absence of various clearances, pointing out
that the decision to build the new project was taken after the Uttarakhand
catastrophe.

"There should not be any delay in the Rs 12,000-crore project for developing
900 km of National Highways in Uttarakhand for improving connectivity to Char
Dham pilgrimage centres," officials present at the meeting quoted Gadkari as
saying.

The meeting was attended by Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal,
Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan, officials of various ministries, including
railways and defence, as well as the Uttarakhand government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of the project last
year with an aim to improve connectivity to Char Dham pilgrimage centres --
Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri in the Himalayas.

During the meeting, the state officials flagged the notification issued by the
environment ministry declaring 40 square km near river Bhagirathi as an eco-
sensitive zone.

Gadkari urged his forest counterpart to look into the matter as this is not just
holding up the project, but causing delays in Namami Gange and border road
programmes as well, the officials said.

Asking the ministry to speed up clearances to 32 other highway projects, the


road, highways and shipping minister has sought exemption of NHIDCL
projects within 100 km of LoC or international boundaries from sending
proposals to regional offices, as in the case of defence.
The issue of transfer of defence land to the National Highways Authority of
India at various locations was also discussed at the meeting as five such cases
are pending, the officials said.

Reaching out to railway officials for rail projects in Maharashtra, Gadkari said
delays are causing socio-economic imbalances.

The railway ministry was also approached to provide 35 acres in Varanasi for
an inter-modal station.

Other port projects, including those of JNPT, Kandla and Kamrajar, came up for
discussion.

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PTI | Updated: Aug 02, 2017, 09.59 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Long delays have become a


hallmark of NHAI projects, with just 55 out of
the total 388 such works getting completed on
or before time between 1995 and 2016, a
parliamentary panel said today.

0 However, it also expressed hope that the


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Stressing that such a decision should situation will improve as the National Highways
have been taken by the NHAI long Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to award
back, it expressed hope of better
projects only after 80 per cent land has been
outcome following implementation of
acquired.
favourable policies.

"Long delays have become a hallmark of all


highway projects which is evident from the fact that since 1995,... (when) NHAI
was operationalised, till June 30, 2016, out of the total 388 projects completed,
only 55 projects were completed on or before time," the Committee on Public
Undertakings said in its report tabled in Parliament today.

It attributed the delays to problems relating to land acquisition and regulatory


hurdles.

It said it has come across instances where NHAI had awarded the projects
even before obtaining the required regulatory approvals and acquisition of land.

The committee said it has been informed that "a decision has since been taken
by NHAI that henceforth no project would be awarded unless 80 per cent of
land is available with the Authority with requisite forest clearance."

Stressing that such a decision should have been taken by the NHAI long back,
it expressed hope of better outcome following implementation of favourable
policies.

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ET CONTRIBUTORS | Aug 02, 2017, 01.17 AM IST

By Sudip Sural

In the developed world, infrastructure is


typically financed by institutional investors, with
matching long-term liabilities and risk-return
expectations, while in India, public sector banks
0 have done so to sobering ramifications.
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India has had a securitisation market
since the early 1990s, with banks as PSBs are reaching their exposure limits in
the primary investors.
infrastructure lending, even as bad loans and
weak profitability have weakened their innards.

This has led to unrealistic amortisation schedules for infrastructure debt, which
do not reflect the long-tenure characteristics of assets, and spawn asset-liability
mismatches for banks.

In the context, a technical study conducted by CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory


for the Asian Development Bank to establish a viable framework or optimal
structure of securitisation of infrastructure assets of PSBs threw up eight
interesting takeaways:

1. Securitisation can ease medium-term capital requirements of PSBs


As of last fiscal, PSBs accounted for nearly 88% of the NPAs of the banking
sector, but only 70% of the asset base. To boot, they would need around Rs 3
lakh crore to meet the new Basel III norms, which are to be implemented by
2019.

Securitisation, the study shows, can go a long way in meeting such


requirements. Infrastructure assets such as roads, power transmission and
airports are best-suited for securitisation compared with other corporate assets
given their stable cash flows backed by long-tenure concession agreements
and higher recovery rates.

2. With issuances rising, its getting Wwell-entrenched


India has had a securitisation market since the early 1990s, with banks as the
primary investors. Transaction volume touched an all-time high of Rs 1 lakh
crore in FY17, led by asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities.

Volumes started taking off in FY15, driven by banks meeting priority-sector


lending requirement (banks preferred to lend more to the retail segment given
bad loan issues in the corporate segment). Also, the clarification on distribution
tax for securitisation special purpose vehicles in the budget for last fiscal
caused mutual funds to return to the securitisation market as investors,
addressing one of the key challenges of the market since 2013.

3. Insurers, pensions, natural investors


Pension and insurance funds tend to have long investment horizons, so
infrastructure assets are a natural good fit. The opening up of pension funds to
new asset classes such as real estate investment trusts, infrastructure
investment trusts and infrastructure debt funds has benefited subscribers in
terms of diversification and superior returns.

Infrastructure securitised papers, too, can be an opportunity given their


attractive yields and longterm nature provided they have high safety ratings
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ET Bureau | Updated: Aug 01, 2017, 11.31 AM IST

BENGALURU: With state elections less than a


year away , the 65-km peripheral ring road
(PRR) project may see some momentum.

The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is


1 planning to give some shape to the special
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purpose vehicle (SPV) created to implement the
The BDA is placing the project project, where the BDA and the Karnataka
proposal at one of its forthcoming Urban Infrastructure Development & Finance
meetings to decide on how to take it
Corporation (KUIDFC) have equal stakes.
forward. [Representative image]

"We wish to have eminent Bengalureans like


Wipro chairman Azim Premji and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy on the
board of this SPV so that the project will get some direction," a government
official said. The PRR project is a bigticket infrastructure project, the SPV for
which have equity contribution of Rs 12.5 crore each from the BDA and the
KUIDFC. The project has been stuck for a long time.

Urban development minister R Roshan Baig, who is also the minister in charge
of KUIDFC, said it was high time the project was implemented and hoped it will
pick up in the coming days.

The BDA is placing the project proposal at one of its forthcoming meetings to
decide on how to take it forward.

The project will connect four highways -Tumakuru Road, Ballari Road, Old
Madras Road, and Hosur Road. The road will, in turn, create seamless
connectivity with Kanakapura Road and Mysuru Road, two other major
highways connecting to Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently wrote to the Centre requesting that it build
the road as a bypass to national highways seven and four (NH-4 & NH-7).

The proposed PRR is also very close to the proposed National Investment &
Manufacturing Zone and it also falls along the Bengaluru-Chennai Industrial
Corridor. The Centre has offered to fund the road construction cost but wants
the state to bear the land acquisition cost. Of the Rs 12,000 crore estimated
project cost, land acquisition alone makes up Rs 8,100 crore.

The state government has been making a strong pitch for the Centre's
assistance because the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which
is likely to fund the project, does not fund land acquisition.The JICA limits itself
to financing the project minus land costs.

The BDA has notified 1989 acres of land for the PRR project and land costs
have risen because the BDA will be paying the compensation based on the
land acquisition law passed by the previous UPA government.

"The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MORTH) has a provision to fund
the project as it is treated as a bypass to national highways. We are hopeful
they will consider," said the official, quoted above.

Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has put pressure on Karnataka to show
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By Dipak K. Dash, TNN | Updated: Jul 31, 2017, 10.33 AM IST

NEW DELHI: The present rate of vehicle growth


will require construction of an additional lane on
highways every year, which will cost
government about Rs 50,000 crore, said road
transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari
quoting a study done by his ministry.
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For several years Indian policy-makers "While we are expanding the highway network
have been talking about the need to and increasing the length by converting more
reduce the load of private vehicles on
state highways to national highways the moot
roads.
question is whether it's sustainable. We have to
find solutions and graduate from building roads
to improving mobility," Gadkari said citing how roads won't be enough unless
the government finds ways to lessen use of private vehicles.

At present, the annual increase in registration of vehicles is over 10%.

For several years Indian policy-makers have been talking about the need to
reduce the load of private vehicles on roads and to put in place mass rapid
transit and robust public transport systems.

"We have to bring attractive public transport and other modes of shared
transport system even on highway stretches, particularly between cities,"
Gadkari said adding that luxury double decker buses could be one such
options.

The study that Gadkari referred to has mentioned how a four-lane highway in
Japan is adequate to manage 80,000 vehicles a day while in India a similar
road stretch gets choked with only 20,000 vehicles.

"This simply shows how we need to make our roads efficient. But we can't
achieve the performance at par with roads in Japan if all types of vehicles
besides cycles and cycle-rickshaws use the same space," said an official.

Considering this, the future expansion of highways will be based on making


stretches access controlled so that slow moving traffic is not allowed to enter
such stretches. "There will be service roads for the slow moving traffic. That will
reduce congestion and road crashes as well," a ministry official said.

The ministry has pushed the introduction of new technology driven transport
systems, which are before the government think tank Niti Aayog.

(This article was originally published in The Times of India)

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IANS | Updated: Jul 30, 2017, 03.21 PM IST

By Rupesh Dutta

NEW DELHI: The Indian Air force (IAF) has


cleared 12 National Highways (NHs) as
emergency landing airstrips that will enable
rescue operation teams to reach affected areas
4 easily, an official responsible for executing the
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One major reason behind the initiative project said.
is to strategically operate in places
prone to natural calamities and where
Although there was initially a proposal to
relief work cannot be carried out
develop a total of 21 NHs into airstrips, for now
without the help of choppers or aircraft.
12 highways have been cleared, with three of
those connecting Odisha, Jharkhand and
Chhattisgarh -- all Maoist-affected areas, which also witness vagaries of nature
like floods and cyclones almost every year.

"The IAF has given clearance to 12 NHs to be developed into emergency


landing airstrips out of the total 21. However, on the remaining NHs,
discussions and testing are on and soon they too are likely to be cleared by the
IAF," a senior government official, requesting anonymity, told IANS.

Despite repeated attempts, the IAF had no comment to offer on the project and
on related issues like the facilities to be put in place if the highways are to be
used in times of emergencies.

To start with, the thickness of tar will be increased and highways will be made
strong enough for aircraft to land.

"The highways will be open for public during normal times, but in case there is
an emergency, then normal traffic will be blocked and the stretch will be used
for aircraft landing. Also, alternate ways will be created for the normal traffic
flow during emergencies," said the official.

According to the Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways and Shipping (MoRTH),


the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been chosen as the
executing agency.

"In all, 17 highways were assigned to the NHAI, but after a joint survey, we
found that airstrips can be developed only on 12 of the NHs. The BoQ (bill of
quantities) has been prepared and we are waiting for approval from the
competent authority on when to start," NHAI Chairman Deepak Kumar told
IANS.

Asked specifically how long it would take for the work to commence, Kumar,
who was appointed recently to head the national road construction agency,
said: "The work is expected to start in the next three-four months."

One major reason behind the initiative is to strategically operate in places prone
to natural calamities and where relief work cannot be carried out without the
help of choppers or aircraft.

Among the 12 NHs cleared for being developed into airstrips are: Jamshedpur-
Balasore highway and Chattarpur-Digha highway -- both touching Odisha --, the
Kishanganj-Islampur highway in Bihar, Delhi-Moradabad highway in Delhi-Uttar
Pradesh Bijbehara-Chinar Bagh highway in Jammu and Kashmir Rampur-
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PTI | Updated: Jul 30, 2017, 12.10 PM IST

MUMBAI: Japan is already extending financial


aid to major infrastructure development projects
in India, and is ready to support more ventures
in various fields, a diplomat has said.

"Japan is very much ready to support India in


1 achieving its 21st goals in various fields," said
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During the meeting of prime ministers Japanese Consul General Ryoji Noda.
of both the countries in 2014, it was
decided to double Japan's FDI into
The two Asian economic giants have
India to Rs 2.1 lakh crore in five years'
exchanges in a host of fields like culture,
timeframe.
business and education, he said.

"To boost the relationship between the two countries, our prime ministers are
meeting annually. As part of the initiative, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
is expected to visit India later this year."

During the meeting of prime ministers of both the countries in 2014, it was
decided to double Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI) into India to Rs 2.1
lakh crore in five years' timeframe, he said.

"Japan is expected to provide Rs 1.2 lakh crore for the high speed rail project
(bullet train) between Mumbai and Ahmedabad," Noda added.

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15 underpasses on 20km stretch of NH-24

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TNN | Updated: Jul 28, 2017, 11.21 AM IST

GHAZIABAD: The widening of NH-24 between


UP Gate on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border and
Dasna in UP will include building 15
underpasses and a flyover to make the 20km
stretch signal-free.

0 This will be a part of the National Highways


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According to the NHAI, a total of nine Authority of India's ongoing Delhi-Meerut
underpasses and three flyovers had expressway project to widen the existing
origi nally been planned on the 20km
highway into a 14-lane one from Nizamuddin
stretch to Dasna. (Representative
bridge in Delhi to Dasna (after Dasna, the road
Image)
will be a six-lane one up to Meerut). Work
widening the Nizamuddin bridge to UP Gate
section began last year, and the second phase, up to Dasna, will begin on
August 1, an NHAI official said. At UP Gate, work on extension of the Ghazipur
flyover into Ghaziabad, which had been delayed owing to traffic movement
issues during the kanwar festival, has also picked up pace. The UP Gate police
outpost has been demolished.NHAI plans to throw open the flyover's Delhi-
Ghaziabad car riageway by the end of August.

The NHAI has set itself a target of 30 months to complete the second phase,
which means the new highway should be ready by March 2020. According to
the NHAI, a total of nine underpasses and three flyovers had origi nally been
planned on the 20km stretch to Dasna. But following a revision in the detailed
project report, the plan was amended to 15 underpasses and a just one flyover,
at Lal Kuan. The underpasses will be built in such a way that there is no criss-
crossing traffic on the expressway and traffic flow at intersections will be altered
accordingly .

NHAI project director RB Singh told TOI, There will be no median cuts along
the entire stretch. The 20-km stretch will be free from any signals to allow free
flow of vehicles. The first section of the highway in Delhi is almost 50%
complete.

The design of the express way has been finalized following a series of meetings
with the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA). The road profile has been
finalised in consultation with GDA. We have asked the power corporation of UP
for shifting two high-tension lines along NH-24 for construction work to
commence. The power corporation has approved our proposal, Singh said.

(This article was originally published in The Times of India)

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PTI | Updated: Jul 27, 2017, 07.47 PM IST

NEW DELHI: National Highways Authority of


India (NHAI) has identified 183 sites to set up
wayside amenities along national highways,
Parliament was informed today.

"These sites will be developed to provide


4 facilities such as separate parking for cars,
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The road ministry grants access buses and trucks, restaurant/food court, low
permission to the retail outlets located cost dhaba, telephone booth/ATM, fuel station
along the National Highways.
& minor repair shop, rest rooms for short-stay,
clean toilets, landscaping...," Minister of State
for Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan said in a written reply to
the Lok Sabha.

Wayside amenities now form part of major highway improvement projects.

The minister said out of the 183 identified sites, land for 63 sites is available
with NHAI and bids for 16 sites have been invited with due date of receipt in
August, 2017.

"Bids for the remaining sites are being invited shortly. A Project Management
Consultant (PMC) has been appointed to assist in the overall implementation of
the project and to engage specialised firms for developing and operating these
facilities," he said.

The road ministry grants access permission to the retail outlets located along
the National Highways.

As per the licence agreement signed as part of granting such access


permission, it is mandatory for retail outlets to provide toilet and drinking water
facilities to the users.

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