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India at cusp of new pvt capex cycle as states bag investments: Report

The Indian economy is at the cusp of a new private capital expenditure cycle, a domestic credit rating agency said on Thursday. After analysing official data from 2005 to 2022, India Ratings and Research said Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra continue to dominate fresh capex allocation, while Odisha is getting attention with projects spread across textile, steel and power sectors. For the past few years, the government led on the investment front while private capital expenditure, which has a trickle-down effect on growth and employment, did not take off. "Analysis of Industrial Entrepreneur's Memorandum (IEM) and Business Expectation Index (BEI) data of 2005 to 2022 shows that the Indian economy is at the cusp of a new private corporate capex cycle," the rating agency said in a note. The IEM data is collected by the government's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, while data related to BEI is released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its industrial .

Road, renewables capex likely to rise by 35% in FY24 & FY25: CRISIL

The total capital outlay for roads and renewables in 2023-24 and 2024-25 is likely to jump by 35 per cent to Rs 13 lakh crore compared to that in the last two fiscal years, according to a report. Conducive policies, rising investor interest and strong execution speed are expected to drive the capital outlay in the sectors, the report by Crisil Ratings said on Tuesday. The pace of road construction and capacity addition in renewables is seen growing by 25 per cent and 33 per cent, respectively, in the current and next fiscal, and the capex growth is expected to sustain over the medium term, the report said. Crisil Ratings Managing Director Gurpreet Chhatwal said the pace of execution of renewable energy projects is set to increase 33 per cent to 20 GW per annum over the current and next fiscal as compared to 15 GW per annum in the past two fiscal years, supported by a healthy executable pipeline of 50 GW of projects as of March 2023. Similarly, road construction is set to improve 25

Saint-Gobian India investing Rs 8,000 crore to meet growth targets

Saint Gobian India, a leading glass maker and a player in housing solutions business, is investing Rs 8,000 crore in 4-5 years to fund capital expenditure and acquisitions to fuel growth, its chief B Santhanam said. The company, which recently acquired stone wool manufacturer Rockwool India and glass wool maker Twiga still has an appetite for inorganic growth here. Saint Gobian India, a subsidiary of the French glassmaker, expects around 10 per cent volume and mix-led growth from the Indian market, where it is witnessing a demand surge. "Saint-Gobain India is performing very well in India in terms of growth, profitability, expansion, sustainability, digital and people talent. All our businesses be it in building and construction or industrial solutions are performing well," Saint Gobian CEO of Asia Pacific and India region and Chairman, Saint-Gobain India, Santhanam told PTI. "We are close to the annualised rate of Rs 13,200 crore... Comparing FY24 to FY23 we will be 8-10 per cent

GAIL to invest Rs 30,000 cr in next 3 years, scouts for LNG supplies abroad

India's top gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd plans to invest Rs 30,000 crore in the next three years as it expands petrochemical capacity and scouts for LNG supplies globally, its chairman Sandeep Kumar Gupta said on Wednesday. The nation's top gas marketing and transportation firm is looking at liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transport fuel, joining Essar-promoted GreenLine which operates the nation's largest LNG-powered fleet of heavy commercial vehicles. Speaking at the company's annual shareholders meeting, Gupta said the firm had a Rs 10,000 crore capex in the 2022-23 fiscal (April 2022 to March 2023). "The company is growing steadily and creating infrastructure facilities across the nation. We are targeting to incur a capex Rs 30,000 Crore in the next three years, mainly on pipelines, ongoing petrochemical Projects, CGD projects, operational capex, equity contribution in group companies etc," he said. With 15,600 kilometres of pipelines under operation and about 4,200 km of pipelin

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Investment cycle gaining momentum, envisaged capex to jump over 80%: RBI

Investment activity is gaining momentum and the envisaged capital expenditure is set to jump by over 80 per cent to Rs 1.71 lakh crore in the current fiscal, according to an article by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) staffers. The article by Shreya Bhan, Rajendra N Chavhan and Rajesh B Kavediya, which was published on Thursday, said improvement in capacity utilisation of the manufacturing sector, pick-up in credit demand and improving consumer sentiments are helping the capex cycle. Cleaning up of balance sheets by both corporates and banks makes room for upping lending activities, the article, which draws from the RBI's data from banks, The paper does not represent the official position of the central bank. "The phasing profile of the envisaged capex, based on the pipeline projects finance... suggests that the envisaged capex increased significantly to Rs 1,71,568 crore in 2023-24 as against Rs 94,876 crore in 2022-23," the article said. In 2022-23 (FY23), infrastructure -- including

Coal India capex spending grows 8.5% to Rs 4,700 cr in Apr-Jul: Officials

Coal India Ltd's capital expenditure rose 8.5 per cent during April-July this fiscal to Rs 4,700 crore as it continued to invest heavily in evacuation infrastructure, land, and mining machinery, officials said. The capex spend during the first four months of the current fiscal year that started in April, was almost 100 per cent of the target of Rs 4,754 crore and 28.3 per cent of the annual target of Rs 16,600 crore (for 2023-24 fiscal), they said. Typically, the capex starts slow in the first quarter with the company laying out the expenditure plans at the beginning of the fiscal and gradually builds up in the subsequent quarters. What makes the 8.5 per cent capex growth in April-July FY24 significant was it came over a high base of Rs 4,332 crore of same period in FY2023, the year when CIL's capex peaked to an all-time high of Rs 18,619 crore. "At a time when the government has been directing the central public sector units to scale up their capital expenditure for economic reviv

Telecom sector to see 7-9% revenue growth, Rs 70,000 cr capex in FY24: ICRA

The telecom services industry is expected to post moderate revenue growth of 7-9 per cent in FY 24, due to muted average revenue per user (ARPU) expansion in the absence of tariff hikes in the near-term, ICRA said. The industry has been "upfronting" 5G capex (capital expenditure) and ICRA foresees sectoral capex at around Rs 70,000 crore for FY2024, within an overall spend of around Rs 3 lakh crore over the next 4-5 years. ICRA believes that the ongoing 5G roll-out entails densification of the network and sizable deployment of fibre, which is likely to increase the capex intensity in the near to medium term. This would keep debt levels elevated at around Rs 6.1-6.2 lakh crore as on March 2024 (as against Rs 6.3 lakh crore as on March 31, 2023). "ICRA expects the telecom services industry to report moderate revenue growth of around 7-9 per cent in FY2024 over FY2023, owing to muted average revenue per user (ARPU) expansion in the absence of tariff hikes in the near-term," ICRA said

Insecticides India to invest Rs 150 cr in next 2 yrs on capacity expansion

Insecticides India Ltd (IIL) Managing Director Rajesh Aggarwal on Sunday said the company will invest Rs 150 crore in the next two years on capacity expansion in Rajasthan and Gujarat, and also launch new herbicide and insecticide products before 'Navratri'. Speaking to PTI, Aggarwal said the company will invest about Rs 100 crore for setting up of a new plant at Sotanala in Behror district of Rajasthan, in the next two years. "Last week, we acquired 15-acre plant at Sotanala in Behror district. Lot of sheds are already there and we plan to manufacture agro-chemicals. We will invest about Rs 100 crore investment here in the next two years," he said. The plant will be implemented in phases and the work might commence by year-end, he said adding this is a second plant in Rajasthan and the other one is located at Chopanki which is up and functioning. Aggarwal further said the company will invest Rs 25 crore in the next fiscal for expansion of its SEZ plant located in Dahej, Gujarat an

India's improved monsoon performance, capex augur well: FinMin report

India's improved monsoon performance, continued expansion in manufacturing, and vigorous capital expenditure spending by the public and private sectors augur well for macroeconomic stability and growth during FY24, the finance ministry said in a report. However, it cautioned that cross-border spillovers and adverse global developments can act anytime as a deterrent to achieving the potential high growth path in the current financial year. The government's emphasis on capex in recent years has given a much-needed thrust to investments in key infrastructure, which has resulted in crowding in of private investment to kickstart the virtuous circle of job creation, income, productivity, demand, and exports supported by favourable demographic dividend over the coming years, said the June edition of the Finance Ministry's Monthly Economic Review. As per Axis Bank Business and Economic Research, Capex by the Corporate sector increased by 22.4 per cent in FY23 compared to the last year, driv

Peerless Group to invest Rs 1,000 cr in capex; focuses on hospital, realty

The Peerless Group on Monday announced ambitious plans to invest over Rs 1,000 crore in capital expenditure over the next three years, a major portion of which will be channelled into the development of hospital and real estate projects. In the financial year 2022-23, the Peerless Group reported a revenue of Rs 635 crore from operations. This notable increase of 22 per cent over the previous fiscal's revenue of Rs 520 crore has been seen as a successful outcome of the company's transformation efforts undertaken last year, the company said. "While transformation is a long journey, during the last year, we have seen early results. Before Covid, our annual growth rate of revenue for the entire group used to be around 6 per cent. During FY23, we have been able to shift the growth rate to 22 per cent," said Peerless Chairman Partha Bhattacharyya. Profit before tax during FY'23 was Rs 196 crore against Rs 149 crore achieved in FY'22. The group's flagship Peerless General Finance & ...

Ceat lines up Rs 750 cr capex for FY24, says MD & CEO Arnab Banerjee

Tyre maker CEAT Ltd has lined up a capex of around Rs 750 crore for the ongoing fiscal, mostly to be deployed in increasing production capacity of agri-radial tyres at its Ambernath plant in Maharashtra, according to the company MD & CEO Arnab Banerjee. The company expects volume of its supplies to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to pick up in the third and fourth quarter of this fiscal, as it completes transition from smaller rim size to bigger sizes, with approvals from automobile manufacturers expected soon. In the replacement market, where CEAT has seen good growth in the first quarter specially in motorcycle tyres, the company expects the momentum to continue although in the rural market which has been dormant for sometime it may take another two more quarters for growth visibility to come. "We have been talking about Rs 700 crore to Rs 750 crore for the year. Out of which around Rs 220 crore we have done in quarter one," Banerjee told PTI. He was responding to a ...

More capex for states

Higher Central funds for states' capital outlay are welcome, but these should lead to additionality

CII business confidence index rebounds on capital expenditure push

Capex, domestic drivers & financial system to drive growth in FY24: CII

Centre approves Rs 56,000 cr for 16 states for capital investment

Projects approved in sectors such as health, education, irrigation, water supply, power, roads, bridges and railways; Bihar gets lion's share of funds at Rs 9,640 cr, MP gets Rs 7,850 crore

Centre approves Rs 56,415 cr to 16 states as special assistance for capex

The highest amount of assistance totalling Rs 9,640 crore will be given to Bihar

At 23% spend, Andhra Pradesh leads laggards in state capex in FY23

Most large states have fallen behind their budgeted capex targets by a wide margin in FY23, which was pegged at Rs 7.4 lakh crore but could spend only Rs 5.71 lakh crore or 76.2 per cent only, according to an analysis. Only four states -- Karnataka, Sikkim, Arunachal and Bihar -- have over-achieved their targets, while Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh's capex spending stood at 98 per cent each. Eleven states fared better with 80 per cent target achievements, as per the analysis by Bank of Baroda economists. As against this, in FY21, the underachievement level was a high 72 per cent, primarily due to the pandemic emergency spending, and had improved to 95 per cent in FY22. Surprisingly, none of the 25 states whose data are available has been able to achieve the target by even three-fourths as the peak success rate is only 72.4 per cent, according to the analysis. This is surprising as the Centre had disbursed the required amounts for the year. The poor show was led by Andhra, which cou

Tata Steel plans Rs 16,000 cr capex in FY24 for domestic, global operations

Industry giant Tata Steel is planning a consolidated capital expenditure (capex) of Rs 16,000 crore for its domestic and global operations during the current financial year, according to its top management. Of the planned amount, Tata Steel has earmarked Rs 10,000 crore towards standalone operations and Rs 2,000 crore for its subsidiaries in India, the company's CEO & MD T V Narendran and Executive Director & CFO Koushik Chatterjee said. "The projected capital expenditure (capex) for FY2023-24 is set at Rs 16,000 crore on a consolidated basis which is intended to be financed through internal accruals over the full year," the executives said in the company's annual report for 2022-23. Of this, Rs 10,000 crore has been earmarked towards Tata Steel Standalone operations of which the Kalinganagar project will account for approximately 70 per cent, they said. The company is in process of expanding capacity of its plant at Kalinganagar, in Odisha to 8 MT from 3 MT. "Our other Indian

Patanjali Foods earmarks capex of up to Rs 1,500 cr in 5 yrs: CEO Asthana

Patanjali Foods Ltd plans to invest up to Rs 1,500 crore in the next five years on capital expenditure, mostly for scaling up its palm oil business, according to company CEO Sanjeev Asthana. The company (formerly Ruchi Soya Industries) has set a target of clocking a turnover between Rs 45,000-50,000 crore in the next five years as it expands its product offerings and distribution reach. "Our estimation is over five years, we'll invest about Rs 1,200 crore to Rs 1,500 crore of capital expenditure...Most of the expenditure will happen in year four and five, which is where we are pushing for and the rest in the initial years. We have enough capacity and capex already laid out," Asthana told PTI. He was responding to a query on the company's investment plans in order to meet its growth targets. When asked where the investments will be made, he said, "A large part of it will be on oil palm". On the palm oil plantation, Asthana said, "We have got about 64,000 hectares which are already

Private sector capex will be key contributor to growth: CEA Nageswaran

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran expressed optimism about India's growth potential on Thursday during a special interactive session organized by FICCI