{"id":302524,"date":"2019-11-23T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302524"},"modified":"2019-11-23T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:52:12","slug":"what-alternative-financing-models-can-indian-roads-sector-look-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-alternative-financing-models-can-indian-roads-sector-look-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What alternative financing models can Indian roads sector look for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a deeper corporate bond market, the Indian roads sector will have to look at alternative financing models to attract more investments. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s road sector, which requires massive investments is moving on a slow lane due to a lending squeeze by banks, coupled with recent slowdown in economic activity. Between fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2019, NHAI has awarded 6,670 km under 119 Hybrid Annuity Model projects, but only 70-75 per cent of the length awarded during that time have achieved financial closure, according to CRISIL. <\/p>\n<p>Ratings agency India Ratings and Research in a comparative study of the key structural risks prevalent in infrastructure financing in the roads sector in India has analysed select projects in the US, Europe and Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a deeper corporate bond market, the Indian roads sector will have to look at alternative financing models to attract more investments. India\u2019s road sector, which requires massive investments is moving on a slow lane due to a lending squeeze by banks, coupled with recent slowdown in economic activity. Between fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2019, NHAI has awarded 6,670 km under 119 Hybrid Annuity Model projects, but only 70-75 per cent of the length awarded during that time have achieved financial closure, according to CRISIL. Ratings agency India Ratings and Research in a comparative study of the [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302524","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=302524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}