The competition in full-service sector is heating up with no guarantees there will be enough passengers willing to pay higher prices to sustain three carriers in a market where low-fares dominate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power after cutting the number of approvals needed for road projects in Gujarat, making it easier for investors to build dozens of new highways. He also restructured utilities to help Gujarat get almost 24 hour electricity.

\"We are looking at a lot of consolidation (of our fleet),\" Jet's Chairman Naresh Goyal said at a press event in New Delhi on Wednesday. Goyal said the carrier is talking to its bankers without giving details of the discussions.

\"With the ensuing monsoon, it will become more difficult to replenish the coal stocks and in case of even a small disruption, the total power generation at these stations will be adversely affected,\" NTPC Chairman Arup Roy Choudhury said in a July 14 letter to the Ministry of Power.

Since investing billions of dollars into an area with large swathes of marshy wasteland, Adani has transformed Mundra into an industrial zone hosting India's largest commercial port and the country's largest privately-owned power plant.

With varying degrees of severity, Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's all expressed worries that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's pledge to keep this year's fiscal deficit to 4.1 percent of gross domestic product looked unrealistic.

Among the goals is bringing much more private money into one of the country's largest state-controlled industries. At present, there's small private involvement in suburban services and locomotive manufacturing.

Piramal is branching out into roads because infrastructure is likely to be one of the more visible beneficiaries of any pro-growth government policies, and competition for assets is likely to be less than in other infrastructure sectors, Parvez said.

The terminal, the fourth at Adani's Mundra complex in the state of Gujarat, will be built over two years in a 50-50 joint venture, Adani Ports said in a statement on Friday.

The credit line would be available over three years and would be delivered through the French Development Agency, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in New Delhi.

Launching its report into the sector, the World Bank has said that despite the gains made in the past decade, India would struggle to make further progress unless it gave its utilities the freedom to improve their performance.

Membership allows Air India to share routes with the other airlines to more than 1,200 destinations, helping it to compete with Gulf carriers like Emirates, which have increased their share of long-distance flights into and out of India.

While Modi is expected to fast-track new projects to boost output and press states to stop politicians from giving away electricity to voters, the task of translating extra capacity into reliable supply falls on state governments.

The apex court has ordered BSES - part of billionaire Anil Ambani's Reliance Infrastructure - to pay state-run NTPC the $116 million it is owed by May 31.