K.V. Kamath’s Infra Plans with NaBFID

K.V. Kamath’s Infra Plans with NaBFID

K.V. Kamath is back where he began, in a development financial institution—he had started his career at ICICI Ltd

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K.V. Kamath -- Photograph by Rachit GoswamiK.V. Kamath -- Photograph by Rachit Goswami
Anand Adhikari
  • Dec 18, 2021,
  • Updated Dec 18, 2021 2:39 PM IST

K.V. Kamath is back where he began, in a development financial institution—he had started his career at ICICI Ltd. Kamath, 73, has taken over as Chairman of National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID), and the government hopes that, with his global experience, he’ll make a difference in its efforts to support the $1.5-trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline for projects to be completed in 2020-25. That’s the big plan, but there’s no institution of size to fund the projects. Ergo, NaBFID and Kamath. “We plan to start lending operations with about 190-200 big infrastructure projects,” he’d said after taking over. Sounds developmental.

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K.V. Kamath is back where he began, in a development financial institution—he had started his career at ICICI Ltd. Kamath, 73, has taken over as Chairman of National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID), and the government hopes that, with his global experience, he’ll make a difference in its efforts to support the $1.5-trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline for projects to be completed in 2020-25. That’s the big plan, but there’s no institution of size to fund the projects. Ergo, NaBFID and Kamath. “We plan to start lending operations with about 190-200 big infrastructure projects,” he’d said after taking over. Sounds developmental.

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Anand Adhikari

Anand Adhikari began his journalism career with the financial weekly Guardian Investor after completing his graduation from Delhi University and ICWA in the mid-1990s. He then moved to the Delhi bureau of  Kolkata based 'The Telegraph.'

He relocated to Mumbai, the financial capital, with the Hindustan Times Group in the late 90s.

In a career spanning two and a half decades,  Adhikari has covered financial markets, corporate sector, banking, debt market, economy, central banking, and insurance. He is currently the Managing Editor of Business Today.

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