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6th Annual Conference on Road Development in India
New Requirements & Execution Capacity: Issues and Opportunities
August 18-19, 2011, The Imperial, New Delhi


KEY TRENDS AND OUTLOOK
Questions/Topics:
• What is the current status of road development (national highways, state and rural roads)?
• What are the key trends and developments? What is the future outlook?

• Presentation by Rohit Chaturvedi, Head, Transport, CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions
• plus Q&A

SPECIAL SESSION: UPDATE ON NHDP AND GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
• What is the current status of NHDP? What are the future milestones/targets?
• What are the opportunities in the next three to five years?
• What is the government's outlook and perspective on sector development?

• Presentation by Dr J.N. Singh, Member, Finance, National Highways Authority of India

• Q&A with Dr Singh and Raghav Chandra, Joint Secretary, Highways, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

KEYNOTE SESSION: DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
• What are the key issues and challenges facing the developers?
• What is their perspective on execution capacity? What are their expectations from contractors?
• What are the developers’ suggestions on tackling the issues facing the sector?

Remarks by and interaction amongst: (in alphabetic order)
• Sudhir Hoshing, Chief Executive Officer, Roads, Reliance Infrastructure
• Mukund Sapre, Executive Director, ITNL
• Athar Shahab, Deputy Managing Director, IDFC Projects
• T.S. Venkatesan, Vice President, Developmental Projects, Roads & Bridges, Larsen and Toubro

KEYNOTE SESSION: CONTRACTOR PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
• What are the key issues and challenges facing the contractors?
• What are the contractor's expectations and issues regarding developers?
• What is their perspective on capacity development?

Remarks by and interaction amongst:
• D.V. Raju, Senior Vice-President, Soma Enterprise
• M.V. Narasimha Rao, Director, Technical, Gayatri Projects
• Mujtaba Khan, Vice-President, Gammon India

FINANCING ROAD PPP PROJECTS
Questions/Topics:
• What are the financing needs of the sector?
• What are the key trends in recent financing (terms, structuring, tenor, etc.)?
• What is the investor and lender perspective on road projects?

Panel discussion amongst: (in alphabetic order)
• S.K. Agarwal, Senior Vice- President, SBI Capital Markets
• Shailesh Pathak, President, Srei Infrastructure Finance
• Shiva Rajaraman, Head, Risk & Asset Management, L&T Infrastructure Finance
• Chaitanya Talwalkar, Vice President, Infrastructure Business, Axis Bank

PROJECT SHOWCASE
Questions/Topics:
• What are some of the landmark projects that have either been completed or are under implementation?
• What lessons have been learned? What best practices could be recommended for future projects?

Presentations by: (in alphabetic order)
• Lava Kumar Abburi, General Manager, Soma Enterprise
• Jayanta Dixit, Vice-President, Implementation, Reliance Infrastructure
• Dr Pawan Maini, Managing Director, CH2M Hill on “I-15 North Corridor Las Vegas, Nevada”
• S.C. Mittal, Senior Vice-President, ITNL on “Chenani - Nashri Project”
• plus Q&A

CHALLENGE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Questions/Topics:
• What are the basics of project management?
• What are the best practices for staying on schedule and within the budget?
• What are the key challenges in road project management in India?

• Presentation by Avadesh Singh, Director, Roads & Highways, Egis India
• plus Q&A

NEW OPPORTUNITY: ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION
Questions/Topics:
• What are the recommendations of the Nandan Nilekani Committee?
• What is the technology roadmap? What are the key options?
• What is the market potential and outlook?

• Presentation by Prof Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIIT Delhi (Member of the Nandan Nilekani Committee)
• plus Q&A

NEW OPPORTUNITY: OMT CONCESSIONS
Questions/Topics:
• What are NHAI's plans with respect to operations, maintenance and tolling concessions?
• What will be the key features of these concessions?
• What are NHAI's and the government's expectations?

• Presentation by J.S. Dhanda, Chief General Manager, National Highways Authority of India
• plus Q&A

KEYNOTE SESSION: STATE INITIATIVES
Questions/Topics:
• Which are the leading states in road development? What are their policies and plans?
• What is the progress on PPP in state roads?
• What initiatives have the states planned for the next 3-5 years?

• Presentation by Vivek Aggarwal, Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation
• plus Q&A

BRO’S EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
• What are the plans and perspective of BRO on road development?
• What are the key issues and challenges?

• Presentation by U.C. Mehta, Chief Engineer, Project Sampark, Border Roads Organisation
• plus Q&A

UPDATE ON PMGSY
Questions/Topics:
• What is the current status of PMGSY?
• What are the opportunities in the next three to five years?
• What are some of the successful projects (completed and under implementation)?

• Presentation by Dr D.T. Thube, Director, Projects, National Rural Roads Development Agency (NRRDA)
• plus Q&A

 

 
         
 
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