5th India Roads Conference 2012

January 11, 2012

Among the few that performed well in infrastructure last year is the roads sector. Inclusive growth will remain the underlying theme for the 12^th Five Year Plan. With a 4 per cent growth aimed in agriculture growth, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has announced that “In the 12th Plan (2012-17), we will pay special attention to the remote areas of our country and to rural areas. Connecting such areas by rail and road will get the top-most priority.”

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the National Rural Roads Development Agency(NRRDA) and the state road development corporations will be busy next year. A major part—about 20,000 km—of the National Highways Development Programme’s(NHDP) Phase IV will be bid out in 2012. On another front, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), targeted at covering rural habitations with motorable roads, will see a large augmentation in budgetary allocation in the 12^th Plan, and will be more aggressive. Many states have shown aggression in connecting their states, cities, towns and villages better next year.

While more projects likely to be offered next year on wards on an EPC model, experts forecast that many rural road projects may be awarded through PPP by bundling in packages: New pilot schemes including the “modified EPC basis” will be on the anvil.

How will our country achieve the objective that the Prime Minister has set? Practitioners in the roads and related industries will have a critical role to play, starting with a platform such as this conference to understand, analyse, discuss and recommend ways forward.

The 5^th India Roads Conference 2012 is scheduled to happen on 15^th& 16^th February at , New Delhi.

Theme: Connecting Rural with Urban India for Inclusive Growth.

Date & Venue of 5th India Road Conference 2012

Date: February 15-6 ,2012
Venue : The Taj Mahal Hotel , New Delhi

Contact Details:

For delegate registration and general enquires –

Saba Fulkar- [email protected] or +91 810 866 3000

For speaking opportunities –

Pooja Jaiswal- [email protected] or +91 2419 3092

For Sponsorship opportunities –

Shweta Bandivadekar- [email protected] or 0810 860 3000

www.asappconferences.com/roads

Conference Chair: Day 1

Dr. J. N Singh, Member(Finance), National Highways Authority of India
Conference Chair : Day 2

Dr. Arvind Mayaram, Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Rural Development , Government of India

The conference will also describe new initiatives and methods in Road sector, debate on relevant questions, and make recommendations. Some of them are:

l Looking forward to the new Five Year Plan: Issues and ways forward

l Premium bids in highways

l Rural connectivity plan analysis

l Aiming for quality construction

l Project management and monitoring processes in roads

l Financing highways and rural roads

l Viability of rural roads

l Tendering processes

l Modified EPC and other new modes of delivery

l Connectivity as enabler of cold chain and agricultural warehousing industries

l Domestic and international case studies in roads sector

l Recommendations and ways forward

Key Takeaways

l What are the lessons the policymakers have learnt from the 11th Plan in infrastructure, and how will they translate into roads sector?

l How much of the outlay can and should attract private investment?

l How will negative VGF (premium) highways fare next year?

l Should more expressways figure in future plans?

l Will “Modified EPC”, which operates like PPP, work better?

l What is the government planning to augment private participation in rural roads?

l Will rural roads projects achieve scale to attract competition from bigger players who can assure quality?

l How can the tendering process for awarding rural road projects be improved, especially as the segment is starting to attract bigger, national players?

l In what ways will enhanced connectivity multiply investments in cold chains and other rural segments?

Format

Our conference is headed by a Conference Chair, an eminent personality connected with the policymaking sphere relating to the industry. The Chair, along with Session Chairs, leads and summarizes the conference’s key points, and makes recommendations to policymakers and the industry.
ASAPP Conferences believes that interactivity at conferences results in better spread of understanding ground issues as well as in involving our delegates in discussions in regards to operations, technology and policy. Such interactivity also helps in evolving critical issues and taking them further in the form of recommendations. Consequently, the conference is replete with panel discussions, often involving delegate participation, and exhaustive Q&A sessions.
A typical session opens with the Session Chair’s lengthy introduction to the session’s main subject. This is followed by related addresses by the panelists in that session, a panel discussion, and Q&A. The session concludes with a comprehensive summary by the Session Chair
Our typical conference includes two coffee breaks and a lunch break during the day, allowing plenty of time for business and professional networking opportunities among attendees.

Written by ITW Editor · Filed Under Expo & Events, Road

2 Comments on “5th India Roads Conference 2012” Post your comment

alok on January 14th, 2012 9:55 am

Conducting conference is OK but also watch what is happening on the ground. It is total loot in the guise of BOT/DBOFT highway projects due to cartel established between Concessionaire-Consultant and the big honchos of executing agencies. It is the safest business with guarnteed profit with no personal investement. One has to manage only few people.
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