Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Poor project appraisal leading to bad loans

More than 50 per cent of the infrastructure projects are stuck at various stages of implementation due to regulatory hurdles and sector-specific bottlenecks, leading to significant time and cost overruns, said K.C. Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, on Tuesday. There has been no dearth of policy pronouncements and re-engineering of processes aimed at improving the investment climate for infrastructural projects, he claimed. However, there seems to be little headway in achievement on the ground, he said. The Deputy Governor said of the 576 Special Economic Zones that have received formal approval, only 172 are operational........

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