India likely to meet infrastructure investment target: RBI

01 Feb 2013 Evaluate

As per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) executive director G Padmanabhan, India is on course to meet its infrastructure investment needs of an estimated $1 trillion over the next five years. G Padmanabhan in a conference said 'the funding process is working in a seamless manner and things have taken off in a very exciting way'. The conference was held to offer a broad analysis of investment instruments such as Indian equities, debt and Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs) available to build new highways, ports, airports, power plants, transmission grids and for the development of industrial townships.

Padmanabhan said that as per the size of the Indian banks, there is a limit for them to lend for infrastructure projects. Some banks have really stretched themselves as the requirement, of a $1 trillion, is massive. But, now we have to look beyond banks to boost the infrastructure investment.

Further, to assess opportunities available within public private partnership (PPP) model in the infrastructure sector, 'Financing India's Infrastructure - Building Partnership with the UK' has brought together policy-makers, CEOs, heads of PSUs from India and the UK and discussed the infrastructure investment tools. 

Meanwhile, credit rating agency CRISIL has described the infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs) as a good route to get money into the sector and estimating between $4 billion and $5 billion being established within a year alone. Further it said that more banks are willing to sell off assets to IDFs and once they are placed, the ratings of IDFs could be as high as AAA, which will attract more investors. 

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