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Vinayak Chatterjee: The manifesto route to nation building

The major political parties offer many schemes and promises but avoid the really tough calls on infrastructure development

Vinayak Chatterjee: Rebuilding India, brick by brick

Twelve ways the new government can breathe life into the country's infrastructure agenda

Vinayak Chatterjee: When paying the price takes a toll

Violence and vandalism at toll plazas point to poor planning. An independent highway regulator would have helped the cause

Vinayak Chatterjee: Power play in Delhi

The Aam Aadmi Party's power and water subsidies for vulnerable sections in the capital are well targeted

Vinayak Chatterjee: Infrastructure tweet and sour

From Kudankulam to the Land Bill, the author takes the Twitter route to capture the infra action of 2013

Vinayak Chatterjee: Highway premia revisited

The recent restructuring exercise of road contracts demonstrates India's adaptability but a road regulator - not a committee - is needed

Vinayak Chatterjee: Land and the greater common good

The new Land Acquisition Act is far more progressive than the critics suggest

Vinayak Chatterjee: Compensatory tariff - Untangling the knot

The treatment of increased costs of imported coal in Adani and Tata Group's power projects could prove to be useful case material for using private capital as a bedrock for infrastructure development

Shrivelling temples of resurgent India

With rising fossil fuel prices and requirement of a reliable solution to peaking power, India needs to refresh its hydro power strategy

Road regulator needed by yesterday

Had we set one up in the late nineties, the capacity-building model based on public-private partnerships would not have been in tatters

Required: 'Mission mode' for PPP in electricity distribution

At least 100 new distribution areas need to be brought in every year

Renegotiating PPP contracts

Projects run the risk of getting derailed in the absence of an institutional mechanism for renegotiation

Better infra: Is the government listening?

Infrastructure CEOs emphasise the need to shift focus from operational interventions in the sector to structural changes

Getting the infra sector to move

The government needs to act on some sensible recommendations from leading infra CEOs

Policy spring and green shoots

A slew of policy initiatives may be breathing life back into the infrastructure sector

Vinayak Chatterjee: Top 15 infra 'must-dos' of the 12th Plan

The 12th Five-Year Plan points out crucial interventions to achieve ‘sustainable and inclusive’ infra targets

Vinayak Chatterjee: 12th Plan - Back to the future

A trillion-dollar-plus planned infra outlay proposes 48% from private participation

Vinayak Chatterjee: Ready action points for railways

Three clear reform-oriented reports show the path ahead for the sector

Vinayak Chatterjee: Hitting the infra tweet spot

A bunch of the author's tweets capture the buzz of the infra market in 2012

Vinayak Chatterjee: The A to Z of Indian infrastructure

Familiarity with the alphabet is important to understand the language of the country's most controversial sector