notified. These include model Request for Qualification (RFQ); Request for Proposal (RFP) and RFP for technical consultants; Model Concession Agreements (MCAs) for different sectors including Highways (both National and State Highways), Ports, Urban Transport (Metro), Power sectors and Manuals of Standards & Specifications have been developed and standardized. Further, Project Sponsors are encouraged toward projects through a transparent open competitive bidding process, which leads to greater transparency and consistency to the bid process and terms of contract.

The maximum number of PPP projects have been undertaken in the Road sector with 447 projects, constituting 51.6% of the total projects.This was followed by Urban Development sector with 177 projects (22.4%), Energy sector with 77 projects (8.9%),Ports with 62 projects (7.2%) and the Tourism sector with 55 projects (6.4%).225 projects have been completed whereas 410 are under various stages of construction and 184 under bidding stage and the remaining in other various stages. State-wise, Karnataka had the maximum of 105 projects with total cost of Rs. 44,459.85 crore under PPP followed by Andhra Pradesh 98 projects with project cost of Rs. 67,696.31 crore, Madhya Pradesh 86 projects(Rs. 14,928.7 crore), Maharashtra 76 projects (Rs. 45,916.34 crore), Gujarat 72 projects (Rs. 45,315.02 crore), Rajasthan 65 projects (Rs. 16,479.5 crores), Tamil Nadu 50 projects (Rs. 21,491.04 crores), Haryana 35 projects (Rs. 67,840.57 crore), West Bengal 34 projects (Rs. 6,849.8 crore) and Orissa (Rs. 22,652.88 crore), Kerala (Rs. 22,281.54 crores) and Punjab (Rs. 4,653.7 crores) with32 projects each.