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Sharmila Chavaly

Sharmila Chavaly, ex-senior civil servant, specialises in infra, project finance, and PPPs. She held key roles in railways and finance ministries.

Infrastructure

Financing and Proving the Platform-Based Grid Model

The Implementation: The new architecture’s power lies in breaking the monolithic grid into distinct asset classes, each with its own risk-return profile.

Sharmila Chavaly

October 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM IST

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Infrastructure

Architecting the Platform-Based ‘Arterial Grid’

The Prescription: A new grid architecture conceptualised in three distinct but interconnected functional layers, each with a clear role and economic logic.

Sharmila Chavaly

October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM IST

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Infrastructure

The End of the Centralised Grid, the Dawn of a New Power Order

The Diagnosis: A one-way grid built for the industrial age can no longer power the digital one. The shift to a decentralised, adaptive network is already underway.

Sharmila Chavaly

October 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM IST

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Beyond the Green Mirage: A Blueprint for Global Infrastructure Finance

Climate finance is trapped in an ideological tug of war. Infrastructure must be judged not by its colour code but by its durability, resilience, and impact.

Sharmila Chavaly

October 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM IST

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How India’s Great Urban Decentralisation Experiment Has Stalled

India’s cities are trapped in a half-decentralised limbo. Powerless mayors, weak finances, and fragmented planning. Three decades after the 74th Amendment, the great urban reform experiment risks becoming a stillborn promise.

Sharmila Chavaly

August 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM IST

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Why India’s Infrastructure Is Breaking Before It’s Even Finished

India’s crumbling bridges and tunnels reflect systemic neglect, weak enforcement, and vanishing accountability. A national crisis is building, before the infrastructure does.

Sharmila Chavaly

June 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM IST

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Why Infrastructure Is Facing Public Backlash Again

Poor planning, patchy communication, and weak execution are turning solid infrastructure policy into flashpoints of public anger.

Sharmila Chavaly

April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM IST

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Electrifying India’s Ports For Cleaner Freight And Cleaner Air

Subsidies for EVs are drying up. Nudging companies to spend CSR funds on freight electrification around major ports could fill the gap.

Sharmila Chavaly

February 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM IST

The Bureau

India’s Exports to US Fall 28.5% in Past Five Months as Tariffs Batter Key Sectors

Sensex, Nifty Hold Firm; India’s GDP Accelerates to 8.2% in July-September

Strong GDP Print Knocks Back Market Hopes of RBI Rate Cut

NCLT Approves National Spot Exchange’s Settlement Scheme With Traders

IMF Reclassifies India’s Exchange-Rate Regime as “Crawl-like arrangement”

Cabinet Oks Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets Manufacturing Scheme

Govt’s Farm Research Body Rejects Allegations on Gene-Edited Rice

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