Infrastructure Quarterly

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.

• The core objective of the ALP was to explore solutions in zero emissions transportation, as transport accounts for more than 30% of India’s greenhouse gas emissions
• This report makes recommendations on the structure of the proposed electric bus service, its fleet and infrastructure requirements, financial modelling, and additional methods of generating revenue to make this a viable proposition for the city and administration for Mohali.

• The report provides a detailed project canvas that the city administration of Hubballi may pursue for implementing climate action. It also proposes an institutional and governance mechanism for climate action and the key avenues for financing these projects. The objective is to co-create the plan through direct engagement with the stakeholders along with scientific data and spatial analysis.

• The Medical Tourism City has been proposed in an area of 77 acres with a hospital of 2000 beds, Facilitation Center’s with Country-specific cuisines and studio/executive apartments, Premium Sports Rehabilitation Centre, a Palliative and Wellness Centre, Apartments, and other public amenities. It is strategically located at Bonguluru Interchange which is near the Hyderabad International Airport. A procedural road map and framework for implementing the project through PPP mode is specified.

• The infrastructure industry has been on a rapid growth in the last few years. The government has embarked on a journey to make India a 5 trillion USD by 2030 through its various initiatives.
• India has seen some landmark projects in the last few years, which has given rise to economic growth, employment, increase in goods transferred, improved connectivity etc. This research endeavors to understand the extent to which the infrastructure industry is progressing. It does so by analyzing and deep diving into the five main sectors of the industry which are real estate, roads and highways, railways, ports and aviation.

City Level Climate Action Plan for Hubballi

• Government of India launched the Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework in 2019 which assess cities through a zero-to-five-star rating.
• The ALP Team, in collaboration with the Hubballi Dharwad Smart City Ltd and with support from the National Institute of Urban Affairs and the World Economic Forum, developed a climate projects canvas for the city administration to improve its climate rating.
• The project gained immense praise from the Hubballi Dharwad Smart City Limited for helping priortise the Climate Action in the City.

AMPI: Co2022

• The fourth term of the sixth batch Co22 successfully commenced from 11-19 February 2023 at the Mohali campus.
• The average work experience in the class was 12.6 years.
• The students came from organizations such as HPGCL, Sanskruti Developers, Madhav Infra Projects Ltd, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, and landmark Concepts.