Private investment projects constitute well over 70 per cent of the nearly ₹34 trillion of fresh investments announced in H1 this year
YES Securities warns India's growth relies too heavily on government spending as private capital expenditure falters despite record corporate cash holdings of ₹10.35 trillion
Government capex rose 54 per cent in April-May FY26 as RBI dividend boosted non-tax revenue and kept the fiscal deficit at a 28-year low for the two-month period
Capital expenditure (capex) of small private airports is expected to rise 50-60 per cent annually over the next three years, driven by capacity expansion on account of a substantial increase in terminal utilisation levels, ratings agency Crisil said on Monday. On the other hand, capital expenditure (capex) at large private airports will see a decline during the same period, as much of the capacity expansion has been completed or nearing completion, it added. However, the overall capex of private airports will slightly slow down by 10-15 per cent to around Rs 40,000 crore over the next three years, as per the ratings agency. Crisil said its analysis is based on the capex of 11 operating private airports and two soon-to-be-operational private airports, which together account for more than 95 per cent of India's private airport passenger traffic. For this study, small private airports are classified as those with capacity of less than 20 million passengers per annum and located in ...
Domestic rating agency ICRA on Monday said private capital expenditure's share in the overall investments in the economy dipped to a decadal low of 33 per cent in FY24. Among the private companies, it was the unlisted players which were subdued in investments as compared to the listed entities, as per a report. It can be noted that for the last few years, the government has been driving investments, leading to concerns in some quarters over the private sector's absence and its impact on the overall economic activity. The private sector has instead focused on deploying excess cash at reducing loan burdens rather than investing in new facilities, choosing to run at high capacity utilisation. "Weak domestic consumption, especially urban, muted export demand, and the influx of cheap Chinese imports in some sectors, among other factors, restricted the capacity expansion plans of Indian corporates," the agency's chief rating officer K Ravichandran said. Illustrating the importance of ..
Indeed, as margins shrink, the smaller players are exiting, leading to market consolidation
Notable exits in 2024 included EQT and Temasek selling O2 Power to JSW Neo Energy for $1.5 billion, Swiggy raising $1.3 billion via an initial public offering (IPO) and providing exits to 360 ONE
Analysts say the weaker spending is one of the reasons for a recent slowdown in India's high frequency economic indicators
Growth is driven by technological dynamism even more than by security for private capital
But project completions slightly lower than in March quarter
The acquisition from ChrysCapital is aimed at accelerating GeBBS' growth as demand for RCM services increases amid complex US healthcare operations
JSW Group firm JSW Infrastructure Limited on Monday said it has approved a capex of Rs 2,359 crore for the capacity expansion at its Jaigarh and Dharamtar Port. As a part of the company's FY2030 growth plan to increase capacity to 400 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) from the existing capacity of 170 MTPA, the Board of the respective subsidiary companies has approved a total capacity expansion plan of 36 MTPA (21 MTPA at Dharamtar and 15 MTPA at Jaigarh), a statement said. The capex plan includes mechanical, civil, and electrical work for the new berths and additional infrastructure like railway siding for Jaigarh Port to boost third-party cargo movement, it added. According to the statement, the expansion will increase the overall capacity of Jaigarh Port to 70 MTPA from the current 55 MTPA and Dharamtar Port to 55 MTPA from 34 MTPA at present. This expansion primarily aims to cater to the increased cargo volume of the anchor customer on the back of the proposed 5 MTPA steel-making
According to the RBI, the infrastructure sector continued to attract the major share of envisaged capital investment, led by the 'roads & bridges' and 'power' sectors
International experience shows how initiatives at the sub-national level can facilitate resource mobilisation for infrastructure development, the report noted
The government needs to take steps such as reviewing personal income tax slabs in the upcoming Union Budget to drive private consumption, which in turn will drive private investment, Godrej & Boyce Executive Director & CEO, Anil G Verma said on Thursday. He also expressed optimism that the government will build upon the solid foundation laid by the interim budget, which focused on boosting infrastructure development, maintaining fiscal prudence, and laid progressive emphasis on women, youth, farmers, and the underprivileged through skilling, welfare measures and financial assistance. "The important area that needs to be addressed now, amongst others, is the continued lower-than-expected growth in private consumption," Verma said in a statement. Asserting that private consumption drives private investment, he said, "Therefore, I am hopeful that the GoI (government of India) will take steps that boost consumption through a slew of measures that could include optimising GST ...
Centre and states capex now at Rs 19 trillion, cornered by infra
Public non-finance corporations' (PSUs) share in investment continued to decline, registering at 9.4 per cent in FY23, according to government data
India accounted for more than half of all Asia deals with West Asia investors and 58% of the capital invested in Asia during the period, outpacing China and Southeast Asia
Private capital is not fully ready to embrace both the risks and opportunities associated with funding energy transition, Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday. Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2024, Nageswaran said there is a lot of talk about funding energy transition and climate change requirements but nothing much is happening on the ground. Citing an example, he said, yields on sovereign green bonds that India issues only have a benefit of one or two basis points. "It is very clear that private capital isn't fully ready to embrace both the risks and the opportunities associated with funding energy transition. Now, if that requires further de-risking by the multilateral agencies, or by sovereigns, then that is an explicit cost that needs to be factored in, given the not so great fiscal situation of several other countries after the pandemic and the debt crisis," he said. During India's G20 presidency, he said, "we did bring out the two volume report of th
RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Jayanth R Varma has said that capacity utilization has been slowly increasing and private capital expenditure would pick up in the coming years. Varma further noted that in the last couple of years, the government has shouldered the burden of investment, while private capital expenditure has been muted. "At the same time, capacity utilization has been slowly creeping up and it is approaching levels that prompt the private sector to undertake capital expenditure at least in some sectors," he told PTI. Moreover, Varma, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad said large public sector infrastructure investment of the recent years has the potential to crowd-in private sector investments. "On the whole, I am hopeful that private capital expenditure would pick-up in the coming years, and pick-up the baton from the public sector," he said. Asked whether India can escape the middle income trap, Varma said it is imperative that