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INTERACTION ROAD & ROAD CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

BRNL is strongly placed to capitalise on it’s financial

engineering capability and asset management skill set

Bharat Road Network Limited, (BRNL) is a road BOT company in India, focused on development,
implementation, operation and maintenance of roads/highways projects in several states in
India. BAJRANG KUMAR CHOUDHARY, MD, BRNL spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES
on his company’s contribution to the road construction sector in India.

Briefly tell us about your company’s to capital and rich pool of contractors, we set of the infrastructure companies, we see
position in the Indian market and your are probably India’s only company focusing ourselves as strong enabler for PPP projects
areas of expertise specific to the road exclusively on Road assets under PPP model while acting as a bridge between the Public
sector. exploring both primary and secondary Asset and Project Authority. We leverage
Bharat Road Network Limited (BRNL), market opportunities. Our main business on our strong asset management skill set,
a Srei Initiative, is a road BOT company operations can be clearly divided into access to capital and rich pool of contractors
in India, focused on development, three categories, i.e. project development through our corporate promoter (Srei) and
implementation, operation and and implementation; operation and our expertise in nancial engineering to
maintenance of roads/highways projects maintenance of tolling operations and implement projects.
in PPP. Our Company was incorporated providing advisory and project management As an infrastructure developer operating
in 2006 as a developer and operator for services to our projects. As PPP model is on the asset aggregation platform, our
highways, road and related projects on aimed at leveraging on the private capital business growth strategy is strongly driven
a BOT basis. Leveraging on our deep for infrastructure development and making by portfolio expansion and improving
domain knowledge, expertise and access the best use of the asset management skill operational e ciency for value accretion.

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