Infrastructure management of a country encompasses financing, construction, reconstruction, relocation, maintenance, up gradation / expansion, closure and decommissioning of various infrastructure projects. This is governed by infrastructure policy and regulatory framework, political and social environment and technology adoption. Many infrastructure financing companies and banks are providing funding for infrastructure development projects in India. The public partners in a PPP are government entities; whereas private partners can be local or international and include businesses or investors with technical or financial expertise relevant to the project.

KEY FINDINGS & HIGHLIGHTS
• Government across the world are increasingly turning to the Build-Operate-Transfer process to accomplish the expensive and enormously challenging task of constructing, repairing, renewing and expanding infrastructure.
• The primary characteristics of PPP include the following: a contractual agreement defining the roles and responsibilities of the parties, sharing of risk by public and private sector and financial rewards to the private party proportionate to the achieved outputs
• The Government of India projects capacity addition of 100,000MW by 2012 for achieving its mission "Power to All". This has created a need to develop large capacity projects at the national level under the competitive bidding guidelines dispensation, leading to the emergence of Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPPs).

REASONS TO BUY
• Provides management analysis of infrastructure in India, covering power, industrial and transport sectors.
• Provides insight into the key concepts like general overview of infrastructure project finance, PPP and issues in infrastructure management and infrastructure project development and management.
• The report will be useful to all students enrolled in Infrastructure management courses, people connected with the Infrastructure industry and investors looking for broad understanding of Infrastructure management.
• Prepares students and budding management executives to face the industry confidently