From engineering feats to sustainable urban planning, these awards celebrate it all.
Infrashakti Awards are aimed at celebrating outstanding infrastructure practices across India. The event is a defining part of the Infrashakti campaign, that aims to go beyond the steel & concrete and tell the story of India’s infra growth through its people.
The awards aim to isnspire innovation and excellence across India by celebrating the extraordinary individual and institutional initiatives. From engineering feats to sustainable urban planning, these awards celebrate it all.
Here are the live updates of the NDTV InfraShakti Awards:
Ricky Kej, 3-time Grammy Award winner, composer & environmentalist, said “Development, by its definition, should be in collaboration with environment. “
Anumita Roychowdhury, Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, (CSE) said, “If there’s a takeaway from the summer we just had, first persistent heatwave and then unprecedented flood. It’s telling us that climate change is real and constant but we can’t keep blaming climate change all the time, keeping in mind the way infrastructure is taking shape today, it aggravates and compounds the impact if we don’t get the blueprint right.”
Vinayak Chatterjee of Infravision Foundation said, “For policymakers, there are two suggestions I have –
1. India is burderned with very large historal installations of infrastructure which is from colonial times- be it railway bridges or dams or tunnels. We should have a very strong inspection teams too keep that infrastrucrture in check so that railway bridges and dams don’t collapse, cracks don’t appear in hill towns such as Joshimath.
2. India doesn’t have a sustainable index. We at Infravision Foundation
have developed a 102-point sustainablilty index. Policymakers should now use this index. We have been propogating it largely.”
Amit Singh, CEO, Adani Green Energy said, “A huge surge of electricity demand is coming our way and looking at what’s happening around us in terms of increase in temperature and atmosphere conditions, it’s important that sources of electricity become green.”
In conversation with experts about sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure that protects the environment and us. The panelists are-
-Ricky Kej, 3-time Grammy Award winner, composer & environmentalist
-Amit Singh, CEO, Adani Green Energy
-G Raghuram, Former Director, IIM Bangalore
-Anumita Roychowdhury, Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
-Vinayak Chatterjee, Infravision Foundation
Rumjhum Chatterjee, Co-founder, Infravision Founation said, “We have made sgnificant progress in terms of core infrastructure sectors in the last few years and we are very proud it. However, there is a lot of effort that we now need to put into looking at how we can galvanize social sectors as well.”
Ashwani Gupta, CEO, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd said, “We believe in $10 trillion economy. Where it will come from?- the trade is at the core of it. What about trade?- When we talk about focus on infrastructure, on energy, on industrialisation- all that is about trade. If we look at our figures, 95% of our trade last year was done by maritime, which is 68% of value of all India. This is very clear and more and more efficient trade, not only in India but globally, is going to contribute to this $10 trillion economy.”
In conversation with panelists about India’s infrashakti in 2027- setting up and scaling India’ sustainable infrastructure vision. The panel includes-
- Ashwani Gupta, CEO, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd
- Anup Sahay, Head, Corporate Strategy & Special Initiatives, L&T
- Mr Mallanna Sasalu, CEO, Provident Housing Limited
- Rumjhum Chatterjee, Co-founder, Infravision Founation
Amit Singh, CEO, Adani Green Energy, said, “India is a big country, we have so many innovators and pioneers who are in different parts of the counry who are coming up with these brand new ideas which can scale, and that’s what we need. When we have an award function like that, we’re able to identify these innovators and bring them to a platform like this where they meet and interact with industrialists and we can take that innovation and idea to the next level”.