INFRASTRUCTUR

E MANAGEMENT
MEETA MANDAVIYA

Introduction
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Union
budget 2012-13 proposed allocation of Rs. 50 lakh crore
towards infrastructure investment during the Twelfth
Plan period. About half of this is likely to come from the
private sector. As part of the General Budget, the
Finance Minister doubled the tax free bonds for
financing infrastructure projects to Rs. 60000 crore.
During 2012-13, the tax free bonds include Rs. 10,000
crore each for NHAI, IRFC, IIFCL and power sector, and
Rs. 5000 crore each for HUDCO, National Housing Bank,
SIDBI, and ports.

 The Finance Minister also announced the inclusion

of more sectors in the list of sectors eligible for
Viability Gap Funding (VGF) under the scheme for
support to Public Private Partnership (PPP) in
infrastructure. These sectors are irrigation
(including dams, channels and embankments),
terminal markets, common infrastructure in
agriculture markets, soil testing laboratories and
capital investment in fertilizer.

 It was announced during the presentation of the

budget that India Infrastructure Finance Company
Limited (IIFCL) set up a structure for credit
enhancement and take-out finance with an
objective to provide ease of access of credit to
infrastructure projects. It was also informed that
an Infrastructure Debt Fund with an initial size of
Rs. 8000 crore was launched in early March 2012
to tap the overseas markets for long term pension
and insurance funds.

 It was also stated that the Government has

approved guidelines under which defence
Public Sector Undertakings adopting the PPP
mode, can establish joint venture.

Budgetary provisions for

Infrastructure Development
The Union Budget 2012-13 stated that
investment in infrastructure is to go up to Rs
50 lakh crore with half of the total
investment expected from private sector.
More sectors proposed to be added as
eligible sectors for Viability Gap Funding
under the scheme- Support to PPP in
infrastructure

 Tax free bonds of Rs

60000 crore to be
allowed for financing
infrastructure projects in
2012-13.

The Union Budget

announced harmonised
master list of
infrastructure sector
approved by the
Government.

 National
Manufacturing Policy
announced with the
objective of raising the
share of manufacturing in
GDP to 25 per cent and
creating of 10 crore jobs.

 Coal India Limited

was advised to sign fuel
supply agreements with
power plants, having
long-term PPAs with
DISCOMs and getting
commissioned on or
before 31 March 2015.

 External Commercial Borrowings (ECB)

to be allowed to part finance Rupee debt of
existing power projects

Transport: Roads and Civil Aviation

 The Union Budget 2012-13 proposed an

increase of allocation of the Road
Transport and Highways Ministry by 14 per
cent to Rs 25360 crore . ECB proposed to
be allowed for capital expenditure on the
maintenance and operations of toll
systems for roads and highways, if they are
part of original project.

 The budget permitted direct import of Aviation

Turbine Fuel for Indian carriers.
The budget also stated that the ECB is to be
permitted for working capital requirement of
airline industry for one year subject to a total
ceiling of US $ 1 billion. Proposal to allow foreign
airlines to participate upto 49 per cent in the
equity of an air transport undertaking under
active consideration of the government was also
made.

Micro, Small and Medium

Enterprises

Rs 5000 crore India Opportunities Venture

Fund proposed to be set up with SIDBI.
The launch of two SME exchanges in Mumbai
to enable greater access to finance by Small and
Medium Enterprises (SME) was announced in the
budget

 The Union budget

approved policy requiring
Ministries and CPSEs to
make a minimum of 20 per
cent of their annual
purchases from MSEs
Of the total 20%, 4 per
cent is to be earmarked for
procurement from MSEs
owned by SC/ST
entrepreneurs.

Background of India Textile Industry

Current Scenario
India earns about 27% of its total foreign
exchange through textile exports.
India contributes nearly 14% of the
total industrial production of the country.
It contributes around 4% to the GDP of the
country.

Current Scenario

(to be cont)

India textile industry currently generates

employment to more than 35 million people.
Fabric production rose to 60,996 million sq meters
in FY 2011 from 52,665 million sq meters in
FY 2007.
India has the potential to increase its textile and
apparel share in the world trade from the
current level of 4.5 per cent to 8 per cent and
reach US$ 80 billion by 2020.

Divided Into Several Segments

Cotton Textiles
Silk Textiles
Woolen Textiles
Readymade Garments
Hand-crafted Textiles
Jute and Coir

Textiles
Financial package of Rs
3884 crore for waiver of
loans of handloom
weavers and their
cooperative societies was
announced in the Union
Budget 2012-13.

Budgetary allocation for textiles includes :-

The budget also

proposed setting up of
two more mega handloom
clusters, one to cover
Prakasam and Guntur
districts in Andhra Pradesh
and another for Godda
and neighbouring districts
in Jharkhand.

 Powerloom mega cluster to be set up in

Ichalkaranji in Maharashtra with a budget
allocation of Rs 70 crore.

Day 2

Ten remarkable infrastructure

developments in India

Mumbai's Eastern Freeway India's second largest flyover

Mumbai's Eastern Freeway

Dubbed an engineering marvel, the first phase of
Mumbai's Eastern Freeway from Orange gate to
Panjarpol opened to the public in June 2013 while the
second and last phase from Panjarpol to Ghatkopar
expected
to
be
thrown
open
in
July.
Over 25,000 vehicles are expected to take the freeway
daily. The Eastern Freeway elevated road will be the
longest such in an urban area in the country. The
bridge will have 313 pillars and 3,340 segments.

 The 17-km freeway is divided in three parts: the

9.29-km elevated road, the 4.3-km road-tunnelflyover and an elevated 2.5-km flyover from
Panjarpol till the Mankhurd-Ghatkopar Link Road
(MGLR) via Govandi.
The eastern freeway is Mumbai's most ambitious
and much awaited project in terms of traffic
decongestion as the
road is expected to
decongest entire eastern road corridor of the city.

Indore's BRTS - Built on the

pattern of Ahmedabad BRTS

Indore's BRTS
The BRTS road route built at a cost of Rs 135 crore. City
travellers have a bus frequency of 15 minutes at every
specific point. The BRTS consists of physically separated bus
lanes and enclosed 'metro-like' stations.
The proposed bus corridor will eventually cover a distance
of 120.46 kms. The fare collection system will include smart
cards.
In 2012, The UN chose Ahmedabad's BRTS as a showcase
project to highlight that addressing climate change is not a
burden, but an opportunity to improve the lives of people

Double-decker trains

Double-decker trains
Its been some years since India's first superfast doubledecker train was flagged off, but the railways has been
introducing them on many routes.
The much-awaited air-conditoned double decker express
train between Chennai and Bangalore started its run from
April 25 2013 augmenting seat availability in the highdemand
route.
Every coach has seats in two decks with food trays attached
at the back of each seat. Every row is provided with bottle
holders, push back seats, windscreens and also charging
socket. Kapurthala RCF is the only railway factory in the
country which manufactures double decker AC coaches.

India's first solar park at

Charanka village in Gujarat

India's first solar park

Gujarat accounts for 66% of India's total solar power. The country's first
Solar Park came up at Charanka village in Gujarat in April 2012. The park at
Charanka, spread across 5,000 acres, has 500 MW of generation capacity
of both solar and wind energy.
Solar project developers like Alex Astral, US-based Sun Edison, Lanco Solar,
Roha Dyechem and GMR Gujarat Solar Power have set up plants in the
park.
While 214 MW of grid connected solar power was commissioned at
Charanka by 17 national and international companies, 10 solar plants
having combined generation capacity of 87.49 MW have gone on stream
in Surendranagar, 8 in Kutch (85 MW) and three each in Banaskantha
(55.20 MW) and Rajkot (25MW), amongst others.

Yamuna Expressway

Yamuna Expressway
The 165kmlong Yamuna expressway is one of the longest accesscontrolled six-lane rigid pavements in India. With the help of
Yamuna Expressway, the rapidtransit corridor between Delhi and
Agra, the drive from Greater Noida to Agra takes just 90 minutes.
On the 165 km Greater Noida-Agra expressway, the maximum
speed limit is 100 kmph for cars and 60 km for heavier vehicles. The
Yamuna Expressway, besides connecting Delhi to Agra through
Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, touches 1,182 villages of Gautam
Budh Nagar, Bulandshahar , Aligarh, Hathras (Mahamaya Nagar) and
Mathura district.

The expressway provides a safe and an uninterrupted movement of

passenger and freight traffic between the nation capital Delhi and
Agra.

Banihal-Qazigund rail link

through India's longest
railway tunnel

India's longest railway tunnel

An 11-km-long tunnel across the treacherous Pir Panjal mountain
range on the Banihal-Qazigund railway line in Jammu and Kashmir,
is the longest such transportation passage in India and second
longest in Asia. The 18-km long Banihal-Qazigund section of the
ambitious mountain railway, connecting Kashmir Valley with Jammu
region, was inaugurated on June 26.

The railway line, which connects Kashmir Valley with Jammu region,
will considerably reduce the travel time between the two places.
The distance between Banihal and Qazigund, which is also one of
the most treacherous stretches in the entire Kashmir rail network
project, will reduce from 35 km by road to 17.5 km on train.
The tunnel is totally water proof and equipped with a fire fighting
system across the entire length of the tunnel. The tunnel passes
approximately 440 metres below the existing Jawahar road tunnel.

GIFT City in Gujarat

Gujarat International Finance Tech-City

Spread over an area of 886 acres, GIFT city city project aims at
state-of-the-art internal infrastructure encompassing all basic urban
infrastructure elements along with an excellent external
connectivity by roads, metro rail and Bus Rapid Transport Service
(BRTS).

The Rs 60,000-crore GIFT City project will house a financial servicesbased multi-services SEZ, a centre for domestic financial sector,
corporate offices, regional offices of companies, a trade centre,
housing colonies, social infrastructure and other associated
amenities. The project is expected to create ten lakh new jobs in
ten years.
The city will use the energy-efficient district cooling system instead
of air-conditioning. It will also use an automated waste collection
system that sucks away garbage from buildings at high speed.

Metro rail projects in

various cities

 The Metro fever is catching up in smaller cities, thanks largely to the

success of Delhi Metro. While Bangalore has already started metro
services, Jaipur, Gurgaon and Mumbai are expected to begin operations
this year.

Meanwhile, Mumbai's Chembur-Wadala monorail section, which is India's

first is set to be operational later this year. The 13 km first reach of Kochi
Metro Rail project from Aluva to Palarivattom is expected to be completed
by December 2015 and the second by March 2016.
The Hyderabad Metrorail is the world's largest elevated Metro Rail PPP
project based on DBFOT basis (Design, Built, Finance, Operate and
Transfer).
The Union urban development ministry has decided to consider the
proposal for Metro in Tier II cities like Lucknow, Kanpur, Patna,
Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Indore, Nagpur, Coimbatore, Kozhikode.
Guwahati will soon have Metro rail with the Centre approving Assam
Government's proposal for the mass transit system.

Modernization underway at
India's Airports

 World over governments spend billions to make that airport

moment agreeable and delightful for visitors and locals alike. India,
with the gleamy T3 in Delhi, is just getting there...With the AAI
initiating a number of upgradation works -both for airports and
airspace navigation - the technology to be used is also undergoing a
phenomenal change.
While Hyderabad Airport has been rated as the No. 1 in India by
Skytrax-World Airport Awards, the GVK-led consortium that
operates Mumbai airport will throw open terminal 2, or T2, that it
hopes will outshine Delhi airport's T3.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport's new passenger
terminal has come up in Kolkata. It will have a capacity to handle an
annual traffic of 20 million passengers as compared to the present
7.46 million. A new glass-and-steel domestic terminal at Chennai
airport is also coming up.

World's highest rail bridge to

come up across Chenab river

World's highest rail bridge

Arguably one of the toughest engineering challenges in hand,
Railways plans to complete the Chenab bridge in Jammu and
Kashmir by 2016, making it the world's highest rail bridge.
The arch-shaped bridge across Chenab river-bed in Reasi district,
which will be five times the height of Qutab Minar at 359 m above
river bed, will connect Baramulla and Srinagar to Jammu via
Udhampur-Katra-Qazigund covering the entire route in about seven
hours.
The 1,315-m-long engineering marvel would boast of several
unique features. The design would ensure that it withstands blast
and seismic activities, while the signalling arrangements would
ensure the train does not encounter high wind velocity at that
height.

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