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Aastha

📉 • 2m

Can India Unlock Sustainable Growth Through Municipal Bonds?

SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 2m

The fundamental issue is that most Indian municipalities simply don't have the financial discipline or revenue streams to support bond issuances. The "success stories" like Indore, Pune, and Hyderabad are extreme outliers - they represent less than 1

Aastha

📉 • 2m

What kind of practical reforms or models do you think could actually help the average Indian municipality become bond-ready?

SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 2m

We can just start with revenue bonds tied to specific cash-generating projects (water, toll, highway roads) rather than general obligation bonds. Use credit enhancements and partial guarantees from multilateral agencies to improve ratings. Create pooled financing vehicles where multiple municipalities share risk. Develop standardized disclosure requirements and bond structures to reduce transaction costs. The potential prize is enormous..India needs to invest $1.4 trillion in urban infrastructure by 2030, and municipal bonds could mobilize domestic capital that would otherwise sit in bank deposits or go to government securities. With the right structures and incentives, this market could grow from the current ~$200 million to $20+ billion within a decade.

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Aastha

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Totally agree the potential is huge. Curious though^-^ : what do you think are the biggest roadblocks in actually implementing pooled financing or getting multilateral guarantees at scale in India? Is it regulatory bottlenecks, capacity issues at ULBs, or just lack of political will?

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