ROUND TABLE I
The Economic Times India Infrastructure Summit 2017’ kicked off on 17 January 2017, in New Delhi with the first Roundtable on Roads, Highways & Ports.
The Roundtable was presided by Mansukh L Mandaviya, Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping. He was joined by a panel of 11, including:
- Kaushik Pal, CEO, Roads Business, Reliance Infrastructure
- Rajiv Agarwal, CEO & MD, Essar Ports
- Sandeep Anand, CEO, Allcargo Logistics
- Satish Parakh, MD, Ashoka Buildcon
- Anand Kumar, MD, NHIDC
- Puneet Dalmia, MD, Dalmia Bharat Group
- Anil Radhakrishnan, CEO, Adani Logistics Ltd
- K.V. Praveen, Head of Construction- Roads, Runways & Elevated Corridors, L&T
- Malavika Pillai, Portfolio Manager, Infrastructure & Natural Resources, Asia, IFC
- K Ramchand, MD, IL&FS Transportation Networks
- Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman; Feedback Infra Pvt. Ltd.
The discussion covered areas such as reviving of investment under the aegis of Public Private Partnership; what can be done to promote speedy, high-quality construction with latest technology; and issues related to fast-tracking approvals, bidding and project execution. Innovative financing and risk management was also touched upon.
Event coverage in The Economics Times newspaper >>
(Sitting: left to right) Rajiv Agarwal, CEO & MD, Essar Ports, Malavika Pillai, Portfolio Manager-Infrastructure & Natural Resources, Asia, IFC, Mansukh L Mandaviya, MoS for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, Feedback Infra and Kaushik Pal, CEO-Roads Business, Reliance Infrastructure; (standing: left to right) Anil Radhakrishnan, CEO-Adani Logistics, Satish Parakh, MD, Ashoka Buildcon, KV Praveen, Head of Construction — Roads, Runways and Elevated Corridors, L&T, Puneet Dalmia, MD, Dalmia Bharat Group, K Ramchand, MD, IL&FS
Sitting: left to right) Anil Radhakrishnan, CEO-Adani Logistics, Malavika Pillai, Portfolio Manager-Infrastructure & Natural Resources, Asia, IFC, Kaushik Pal, CEO-Roads Business, Reliance Infrastructure, Rajiv Agarwal, CEO & MD, Essar Ports
Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, Feedback Infra, K Ramchand, MD, IL&FS, KV Praveen, Head of Construction — Roads, Runways and Elevated Corridors, Puneet Dalmia, MD, Dalmia Bharat Group; Puneet Dalmia, MD, Dalmia Bharat Group
On Centre Table : Mansukh L Mandaviya, MoS for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Himangshu Watts, Senior Editor, The Economic Times moderating the panel.
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