{"id":284664,"date":"2019-07-27T04:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284664"},"modified":"2019-07-27T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T05:10:10","slug":"niif-eyes-1-bn-more-from-overseas-investors-in-fresh-fundraising-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/niif-eyes-1-bn-more-from-overseas-investors-in-fresh-fundraising-round\/","title":{"rendered":"NIIF eyes $1 bn more from overseas investors in fresh fundraising round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is looking at raising another $1 billion from external investors, a senior official said here Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The NIIF, which is tasked with attracting investments into infrastructure and other key sectors, has already received commitments for $1 billion from a few external investors. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been able to raise over $1 billion so far and hope to get a similar amount now,&#8221; executive director Prakash Rao said speaking at an event organised by the industry lobby CII. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to investors, he hinted that they may be announcing a new fund raising deal soon, but did not specify the deal amount, time-line or whether this is over and above the proposed $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is looking at raising another $1 billion from external investors, a senior official said here Friday. The NIIF, which is tasked with attracting investments into infrastructure and other key sectors, has already received commitments for $1 billion from a few external investors. &#8220;We have been able to raise over $1 billion so far and hope to get a similar amount now,&#8221; executive director Prakash Rao said speaking at an event organised by the industry lobby CII. Speaking to investors, he hinted that they may be announcing a new fund raising deal soon, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}