While India is busy grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic has compelled us to acknowledge the glaring deficiencies in our public health services and infrastructure. We are constantly faced with the vital question of affordable and accessible healthcare for all. Even though India has taken progressive steps towards achieving the goal of Universal Health […]
Green is the new grey in India
India is one of the fastest expanding economies in the world with a growing need of infrastructure. However, excessive infrastructural growth can lead to long term detrimental effects on the environment, which is where the concept of sustainable construction comes into play. Sustainable construction focuses on three main dimensions, which are economic, environmental and social […]
Competition Concerns in Structuring Concession Agreements in PPP projects
Introduction:Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement between a government or statutory entity on the one side and a private sector company on the other side, for delivering an infrastructure service.[1] It is an alternative method of procurement, which involves substantial risk-sharing with the private partner. PPP is a departure from a traditional procurement model. […]
PPP projects in Smart Cities [First 20]
PPP projects in Smart Cities [First 20]
Subtle but significant changes to private infrastructure investment in first half of 2018
Like winter and summer solstices of investment cycles, every six months we take stock of how much private participation in infrastructure has come to financial close across emerging markets. This is basically effecting countries like Mozambique to Moldova, Chile to China—in power, water, transport, and the backbone of telecom services—the World Bank Group tracks every […]
Waste to Wealth
The current mismanagement of the waste and our nonchalant attitude has started raising serious health and sanitation issues like weaker immune systems, breathing problems, bacterial infections, elevated cardiovascular risk, and other infections. Breeding of mosquitoes has become easier and vector borne diseases like dengue and malaria have become rampant. Moreover, the decomposition of organic waste […]
Overlooked Realities of Maharashtra and Odisha
Authors – Debayani Panja (Research Associate, CIRC) and Konica Sehgal (Intern, CIRC) Every person has a right to potable water. Insufficient water infrastructure has indirect linkage to productivity of men and women, leading to health problems, out-of-pocket medical expenditures and loss of employment days. This affects overall growth of a society. In India, water is a […]
Bifurcation of the proportion of total project cost under Water & Sanitation (2007-17 – till September 2017)
The PPP projects considered are from September 2007 to September 2017. They are from water and sanitation sector, and represent various aspects like waste management, water supply pipeline, water treatment plant and irrigation. The PPP projects here are all Central government projects and the pie chart represents their total project cost. The total project cost […]
Distribution of proportion of the total project cost in Education & Health under social infrastructure (2007-2017 – till September 2017)
The PPP projects considered are from September 2007 to September 2017. They are from 2 sectors of education and health. The PPP projects here are all Central government projects and the pie chart represents their total project cost in each sector. The total project cost in the health sector has been higher than the total […]
Evaluating water perspectives in 4 Indian states (PART 4)
( This is a report evaluating the water and related concerns in 4 states of India – Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan. Every week a part of the report will be published.) Author : Konica Sehgal Role of Public Private Partnership and how can it help A partnership between public and private sectors helps the […]