{"id":291169,"date":"2019-09-11T06:16:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291169"},"modified":"2019-09-11T06:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:16:50","slug":"new-norms-likely-for-bot-road-projects-to-lure-private-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-norms-likely-for-bot-road-projects-to-lure-private-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"New norms likely for BoT road projects to lure private investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is planning to issue a set of guidelines for allocating road projects on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis that will ensure a certain level of preparedness before awarding projects as it looks to revive private investment in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from making changes in the concession agreement and exit clauses, among others, the ministry of road transport and highways will firm up the guidelines to ensure risks are largely eliminated to revive the mode of project construction, a government official aware of the matter told ET.<\/p>\n<p>Market watchers said this approach fits into the category of \u2018plug n play\u2019 model where the government creates an SPV to secure environment, land clearances and removes utilities. It then bids out the SPV with all these in place, getting a much higher price for the bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is planning to issue a set of guidelines for allocating road projects on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis that will ensure a certain level of preparedness before awarding projects as it looks to revive private investment in the sector. Apart from making changes in the concession agreement and exit clauses, among others, the ministry of road transport and highways will firm up the guidelines to ensure risks are largely eliminated to revive the mode of project construction, a government official aware of the matter told ET. Market watchers said this approach fits into the category of \u2018plug n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291169","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}