{"id":403329,"date":"2021-03-06T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403329"},"modified":"2021-03-06T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:05:36","slug":"infrastructure-majors-evince-interest-in-bot-projects-in-west-bengal-after-highways-ministry-tweaks-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/infrastructure-majors-evince-interest-in-bot-projects-in-west-bengal-after-highways-ministry-tweaks-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure majors evince interest in BOT projects in West Bengal after Highways ministry tweaks model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four major infrastructure companies, including IRB NSE -0.22 % Infra and Adani NSE -0.93 % Road Transport Ltd, have expressed interest in two projects in West Bengal that are proposed to be built on the Build-Operate-Transfer model.<\/p>\n<p>The companies participated in the technical bidding round which opened on Friday, a person familiar with the development told ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour companies including IRB, Adani, PNC Infratech NSE 0.34 % and GR Infra have participated in bids invited on BOT mode by NHAI,\u201d the person said. T projects, private sector developers build a road using their own funds, operate it and transfer it to the government after a specified period.<\/p>\n<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) recently announced changes to the model concession agreement for such projects, helping the authority garner a better response from the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four major infrastructure companies, including IRB NSE -0.22 % Infra and Adani NSE -0.93 % Road Transport Ltd, have expressed interest in two projects in West Bengal that are proposed to be built on the Build-Operate-Transfer model. The companies participated in the technical bidding round which opened on Friday, a person familiar with the development told ET. \u201cFour companies including IRB, Adani, PNC Infratech NSE 0.34 % and GR Infra have participated in bids invited on BOT mode by NHAI,\u201d the person said. T projects, private sector developers build a road using their own funds, operate it and transfer it [&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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403329","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\/403329","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=403329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}