{"id":639154,"date":"2024-03-20T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=639154"},"modified":"2024-03-20T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:28:33","slug":"govt-sweetens-contract-terms-for-bot-highway-projects-boost-to-pure-play-ppp-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-sweetens-contract-terms-for-bot-highway-projects-boost-to-pure-play-ppp-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt sweetens contract terms for BOT highway projects, boost to pure-play PPP projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To lure private risk capital into highway construction, the government has revised the concession terms for build operate transfer (BOT) projects. Liberal construction support, facility to borrow from non-bank lenders and enhanced compensation if the tariff projections are built into the revised model concession agreement (MCA). <\/p>\n<p>The changes are expected to give greater comfort to bidders under pure-play public private partnership projects, and the government aims to invite bids for Rs 2.1 trillion of highway projects under the model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To lure private risk capital into highway construction, the government has revised the concession terms for build operate transfer (BOT) projects. Liberal construction support, facility to borrow from non-bank lenders and enhanced compensation if the tariff projections are built into the revised model concession agreement (MCA). The changes are expected to give greater comfort to bidders under pure-play public private partnership projects, and the government aims to invite bids for Rs 2.1 trillion of highway projects under the model.<\/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-639154","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\/639154","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=639154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}