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Ind-Ra maintains stable outlook on India’s road sector for FY20

12 Feb 2019 Evaluate

India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) in its latest report has maintained a stable outlook on India’s road sector for the financial year 2019-20 (FY20). As per report, it expects the infrastructure sector to remain stable in FY20 on the back of stable economic growth. The report highlighted that the per day road construction touched a record high of 31.4 km during 2018-19 (FY19), constructing close to 11,000 km of roads and highways so far.

However, it lagged caution for the government’s ambitious flagship highway construction programme, Bharatmala, stating that with only 13 % of projects being awarded under the programme so far, the project is yet to gain momentum. Works awarded under Bharatmala stand at an approximate value of 2,000 km, which is less than what the government had hoped for this year. Bharatmala is the government’s flagship highway construction programme which envisions to construct more than 60,000 km of national highways in two phases. The total estimated cost of the project is Rs 6.92 lakh crore. The first phase of the programme was launched in October 2017, which envisions to construct 34,800 km of national highways at an estimated cost of Rs 5.35 lakh crore.

Another revelation made by Ind-Ra was the shift from hybrid-annuity-model (HAM) to engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) model. According to the report, in the last one decade, builders opting for build-operate-transfer (BOT) model have been replaced by builders opting for HAM first and EPC later. The report noted ‘given the upfront availability of land in many Hybrid Annuity road projects, large and strong developers’ execution efficiency played in their favour with timely or earlier-than-scheduled construction in Ind-Ra portfolio’.

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