Infrastructure Quarterly

Professor Chandan Chowdhury, Executive Director, PLIIM

Our Vision & Mission

Punj Lloyd Institute of Infrastructure Management (PLIIM) is established within the Indian School of Business as a specialist Institute to support its Infrastructure. The institute has the MIT Sloan School of Management as its associate partner. The vision and mission of the institute are:

Vision

To create high-quality leadership and management capacity for the infrastructure sector and understand the industry’s sustainability by delivering quality education, contextual research, and continuous outreach.

Mission
  • Create top-quality educational and training programs.
  • Facilitate learning through online programs.
  • Undertake research that is contextual to the Indian and developing country context.
  • Develop tools and decision support systems to support the infrastructure practice.
  • Undertake continuous outreach to support the sector.
  • Serve as a "Go to" place for the infrastructure sector in India and abroad.

The Punj Lloyd Institute undertakes various initiatives to guide the infrastructure sector towards efficient and sustainable development through research initiatives, knowledge-sharing events, and training public officials and industry professionals. To meet its vision, the institute works closely with corporates in three verticals, Education, Outreach, and Research. A brief on various activities of the institutes is given below.

Research

Critical Aspects of Infrastructure in India

Our research on infrastructure aims at understanding the critical aspects of infrastructure in India. Overall, we have evaluated six major sectors from the broad domain (infrastructure), namely, real estate, roads, highways, rails, ports and airports.

We identified the corresponding sectors in the extensive database available known as Capitaliq. For our analysis, we have considered both listed as well as non-listed companies in the respective sectors. Further, data on thirteen important financial parameters such as revenue, EBITDA and cash from operations was collected. These datapoints comprise of the values of the financial parameters’ of 1979 companies. At last, analysis was done to evaluate the trend over a period of ten years that led to some interesting insights.

Education

AMPI Masterclass on "Emerging Trends in Urban Mobility."

The AMPI Faculty Masterclass scheduled on November 10, 2022, Prof. O. P. Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute shared insights on "Emerging Trends in Urban Mobility."

He addressed several issues in Urban Mobility such as:

  • The explosive growth of motor vehicles in the country
  • Different Measures taken by Governments to avoid traffic congestions
  • Urban Air Pollution, Accidents, and Climate Change
  • Complex Public Transport Planning
  • Transit Oriented Development
  • Redesigning Public Transport
  • Electric Vehicles and the drivers of its growth.
ISB's AMPI Alumni Connect Webinar.

We had a webinar session on (How to transform into a leader in the Infrastructure and Real Estate Industry) on 24th Novmeber, 2022, We had our alumnus as a speaker. Srinivas Kalluri, Director, Project Operations at Daulat Ram Engineering Services Pvt Ltd, from the AMPI batch of 2018, Mr. Izu Singh Kalra, Director Kabir Infra Pvt Ltd from the AMPI Batch of 2017, Ms. Kavita Gajria, Manager - Infrastructure at Kaya Ltd from the AMPI Batch of 2021, Moderator by Col. Rajiv Bhargava, Sr. Associate Director, ISB.

Alumni Achievement

Before taking the ISB’s AMPI course, I primarily worked as a construction project planner. However, the slow advancement in the industry motivated me to seek out leadership development courses. I found that the AMPI was the only course in the country specifically designed for working professionals in the Infrastructure Industry. Thanks to the AMPI course, I was able to secure a position with one of the world's leading consulting firms and now assist stakeholders / CEOs in making strategic decisions in implementing Infrastructure Projects in Urban areas. The course provided me with valuable knowledge and insights in areas such as infrastructure finance, strategies, and project management. It truly gave me a strong foundation for my career growth.

Outreach

SIG City Meet

The SIG City meet was to bring together ISB alumni across programs for an evening of learning, connecting, and networking.

Manops SIG lead the panel discussion on "Digital Transformation: Reimagining Processes in Infrastructure and Real Estate", and it was moderated by Col. Rajiv Bhargava, PGP Co ’11, Senior Associate Director, Punj Lloyd Institute of Infrastructure Managements, ISB.This was scheduled at 6:30 PM on 19th Novemeber, 2022.

Punj Lloyd Institute of Infrastructure Management

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