The Affiliation of Monetary Advisors of India’s Nationwide Summit and Indian Local weather Chief Awards 2025 concluded efficiently on Wednesday, March 5, bringing collectively business leaders, policymakers, and monetary establishments to discover sustainable finance and funding methods. Trade physique AFAI is devoted to creating a clear funding infrastructure within the nation.
Notable audio system on the much-anticipated occasion, organised on the India Worldwide Centre within the nationwide capital, included Vivek Kumar Dewangan, CMD, REC Ltd; Dr Padmanabhan Raja Jaishankar, MD, IIFCL, and Sudhendu J Sinha, Advisor, NITI Aayog. Becoming a member of them have been Rajiv Ranjan Jha, Director, PFC Ltd; Virender Pankaj, CEO, Aseem Infrastructure Finance Ltd; Nishant Arya, Vice Chairman and MD, JBM Group, and Sabyasachi Majumdar, Senior Director, CareEdge Group.
The discussions supplied key insights on a bunch of essential areas, resembling the need of credit score enhancements for low-rated infrastructure particular goal autos (SPVs) to entry bond markets and the transformative position that battery-as-a-service (BaaS) gamers are set to play in electrical mobility.
“To fulfill the goal of 500 GW non-fossil gas capability for electrical energy era and storage by 2030, REC estimates {that a} whole funding of about Rs 20 lakh crore can be required. REC is focusing on a market share of about Rs 3 lakh crore by 2030. Our renewable power portfolio, which is at the moment about 10 per cent of our AUM, will improve to about 30 per cent by 2030,” stated the REC Chairman.
The talks underscored that a good portion of debt financing for infrastructure is managed by a small variety of non-bank monetary corporations. It was emphasised that the federal government is at the moment doing the heavy lifting by way of funding, which is unsustainable in the long term.
Jyoti Prakash Gadia, President of AFAI, and Ashish Agrawal, Summit Chair and Founder Member of AFAI, led the discussions on the occasion.
Resurgent India Ltd was the presenting associate for the occasion, which concluded with the celebrated AFAI Indian Local weather Chief Awards 2025.
Indian Financial institution and IDFC First Financial institution have been honoured for his or her achievements in inexperienced finance, whereas Aseem Infrastructure Finance Ltd and UC Inclusive Credit score Pvt Ltd excelled within the NBFC sector.
Inexperienced Artha was acknowledged as an distinctive PE/VC Fund in Environmental Affect Investments.
Ashok Leyland, Ather Vitality and Priyam Industries have been celebrated for his or her developments in electrical autos.
Within the classes of fresh expertise—popularly referred to as ‘cleantech’—and renewable power classes, Koshish Sustainable Options, KosolEnergie, n3e Applied sciences and Shreeniwas Improvements have been recognised for his or her important contributions.
