{"id":358203,"date":"2020-06-19T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358203"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:51:19","slug":"pure-ppp-projects-in-highways-seem-to-attract-interest-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pure-ppp-projects-in-highways-seem-to-attract-interest-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure PPP projects in highways seem to attract interest again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highway sector seems to witness investor interest in pure public-private-partnership (PPP) projects, the share of which in new awards has declined precipitously for nearly a decade and drawn a blank in the last two financial years. <\/p>\n<p>At least five firms \u2014 IRB Infrastructure, Ashoka Buildcon, Adani Road Transport, Oriental Structural Engineers and PNC Infratech \u2014 are understood to have evinced interest in two national highway stretches totalling 132-km under the traditional build-operate-transfer (toll) model where investors do have skin in the game. <\/p>\n<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had invited request for proposals (RFPs) for six-laning of the two stretches in West Bengal \u2013 Panagarh to Palsit (67.75) and Palsit to Dankuni (63.83 km) \u2013 on the NH-19 in February. Three extensions have already been given for submission of final bids, with the latest deadline being July 9. Bids will be opened on July 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highway sector seems to witness investor interest in pure public-private-partnership (PPP) projects, the share of which in new awards has declined precipitously for nearly a decade and drawn a blank in the last two financial years. At least five firms \u2014 IRB Infrastructure, Ashoka Buildcon, Adani Road Transport, Oriental Structural Engineers and PNC Infratech \u2014 are understood to have evinced interest in two national highway stretches totalling 132-km under the traditional build-operate-transfer (toll) model where investors do have skin in the game. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had invited request for proposals (RFPs) for six-laning 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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358203","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=358203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}