The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has completed 95 per cent of the civil work. By early next year, it will hand over the stations to the concessionaire — Reliance Infrastructure — and CAF, a Spanish company, for finishing. Operations will start by next September. Join discussion...

A 42 km ‘Namma Metro’ will criss-cross the City on a Phase-1, East-West and North-South corridor in September 2012 at a cost exceeding Rs 8,158 crore. A high-speed train at a cost of Rs 5,767 crore will become a reality in 2011-12 to connect the BRV parade grounds to the Bengaluru International Airport on NH-7 on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. A 59 km monorail corridor has been identified to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 12,000 crore, on a public-private-partnership (PPP) within the next three years. Join discussion...

The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is turning to private finance to pay for future work on the Dubai Metro with plans to add 240km of track and 250km of tramlines. The government is considering three forms of financing - Build Operate Transfer (BOT), Direct Public Finance (DPF), and Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Join discussion...

Australia’s New South Wales state government may consider a public-private partnership for its A$5 billion ($4.4 billion) Sydney metro project, the Australian Financial Review reported, without saying where it got the information. Join discussion...

The practice of "build, operate and transfer," otherwise known as "BOT," is a widely accepted procedure to allow private enterprises to carry out all or part of state-planned public works that permits private investment building and long-term operation of transportation or other infrastructure projects before an eventual transfer to public ownership. Seen in the 1990s as an ideal means to promote domestic and foreign private investment in costly transportation projects, almost all BOT projects carried out in Taiwan have experienced grave fiscal and management projects. Join discussion...

The Kaohsiung Metro, which opened service on March 9 last year, may soon follow in the footsteps of the Taiwan High Speed Railroad's bullet train system. Both are BOT (build-operate-transfer) projects, albeit Kaohsiung Metro is much smaller in scale. Join discussion...

Deloitte India is the financial consultant to the Hyderabad Metro Rail project and will help the state government in evaluating bids for the project besides acting as transaction advisor. The Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) called for Request For Proposal (RFP) from interested firms through open bids last month and the bids were finalised on Saturday. Join discussion...

Implementation of the project is being contemplated on the basis of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT). The communications ministry officials said four other mega projects include Dhaka-Chittagong Excess Control Highway, Dhaka Mega City Sky rail, Dhaka Mega City Elevated Expressway and construction of Dhaka-Narayanganj-Gazipur-Dhaka Elevated Expressway. Join discussion...

The remaining bidders are Celtic Metro Group and Metro Express. Both consortia include Irish and international partners. Celtic Metro Group comprises Barclays Private Equity, Obrascon Huarte Lain, Mitsui, Soares da Costa, Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras SA, CAF and MTR Corp. The MetroExpress consortium is made up of Macquarie Capital, Global Via Infrastructuras, Allied Irish Bank, Bombardier and Transdev/RATP. Join discussion...

The Mumbai Metro's second line from Charkop to Mankhurd via Bandra has come closer to reality with Anil Ambani's Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RIL) putting in the sole bid for the 32-km railway line. The RIL submission came on Friday afternoon at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) office in Bandra (E) after a subtle war of nerves with the rival, Mukesh Ambani Group's representatives who waited till the end but did not submit their sealed tender envelope. Join discussion...