Avoid a hard landing

The UPA government subjected the infrastructure sector to policy paralysis, environment clearance roadblocks and high-intensity redtape. The NDA government fought tooth and nail to bring about an ordinance when all other measures failed to get all parties onboard the Land Acquisition Act. This was necessitated as the methods for acquiring land under the dated Land […]

Time to hit the right button!

Roads and highways are not the flavour of the season! Yes, you read correctly. They are not. The growth magnet now has moved to water supply, irrigation, affordable housing and railways too. EPC projects are increasingly finding favour over HAM projects. A huge consolidation exercise is under way as the Insolvency & Banking Code (IBC) […]

Toasting the fighters

We are not out of the woods yet. Eight core sectors – coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity – slowed to 1.1 per cent in July after a growth of 3 per cent in June, mainly on account of low expansion in coal output and contraction in steel, crude […]