Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandee throughout “Infrastructure Conclave 2025” held in Mumbai, Maharashtra on September 18, 2025 | Photograph credit score: PTI
At an occasion held in Mumbai on September 18, 2025, the Securities and Trade Fee of India’s Securities and Trade Fee (SEBI) Chairman Tohin Kanta Pandi (SEBI) stated that weak steadiness sheets of native governments are a problem.
“Native governments are the premise for city degree improvement, enabling native city organizations to lift long-term funding for essential tasks similar to water provide, sanitation, transportation, and waste administration, difficult venture preparation and reliability.
“The Indian municipal bond market continues to be in its early levels, however the chance is immeasurable,” he added.
He referred to as for measures to develop capital markets and make institutional and retail traders engaging to put money into municipal and inexperienced bonds.
Talking at Conclave, he additionally emphasised the necessity to increase his asset monetization plan. “Asset monetization in numerous sectors, together with roads, rail, ports, ports, airports, vitality, oil and fuel, logistics, and so forth. The state authorities has but to crystallize asset monetization plans to additional improve the creation of infrastructure,” Pandi stated.
He additional emphasised the event of actual property funding trusts (REITs) and infrastructure mutual funds (invites) as new asset lessons. It’s “essentially the most promising path to main long-term capital to infrastructure and actual property,” he stated.
Sebi lately introduced that REITs are labeled as shares. This may qualify for being listed within the index and guaranteeing better participation.
