Foreword

India is becoming increasingly noticed in the international arena for its infrastructure development. The country’s inherent infrastructure deficit, coupled with growth-oriented measures by the Government and increased private capex, drives the activities in the infrastructure sector many folds. With the Public–Private Partnership (PPP) model going full steam, fund is no more a constraint. Major deterrent, from my viewpoint, is the domestic project execution capabilities/project management consultancy (PMC) services.

In construction industry, the project management is traditionally learnt ‘on-the-job’, which is a long-drawn process and typically takes 3-4 projects before someone gets a grip of it. This was working fine till now, but ...

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