What is ‘Infrastructure Lending'?
By Vijay Kumar
LIST of sub-sectors for ‘Infrastructure Lending': A credit facility extended by lenders (i.e. banks and select AIFIs) to a borrower for exposure in the following infrastructure sub-sectors will qualify as ‘infrastructure lending':
Sl.No. | Category | Infrastructure sub-sectors |
|---|
1. | Transport | i. Roads and bridges
ii. Ports
iii. Inland Waterways
iv. Airport
v. Railway Track, tunnels, viaducts, bridges
vi. Urban Public Transport (except rolling stock in case of urban road transport) |
2. | Energy | i. Electricity Generation
ii. Electricity Transmission
iii. Electricity Distribution
iv. Oil pipelines
v. Oil/Gas/Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) storage facility
vi. Gas pipelines |
3. | Water & Sanitation | i. Solid Waste Management
ii. Water supply pipelines
iii. Water treatment plants
iv. Sewage collection, treatment and disposal system
v. Irrigation (dams, channels, embankments etc)
vi. Storm Water Drainage System |
4. | Communication | i. Telecommunication (Fixed network)
ii. Telecommunication towers |
5. | Social and Commercial Infrastructure | i. Education Institutions (capital stock)
ii. Hospitals (capital stock)
iii. Three-star or higher category classified hotels located outside cities with population of more than 1 million
iv. Common infrastructure for industrial parks, SEZ, tourism facilities and agriculture markets
v. Fertilizer (Capital investment)
vi. Post harvest storage infrastructure for agriculture and horticultural produce including cold storage
vii. Terminal markets
viii. Soil-testing laboratories
ix. Cold Chain |
RBI/2012-13/297 DBOD.BP.BC.No. 58 / 08.12.014 /2012-13, Dated: November 20, 2012