Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB) is established as a body corporate under Gujarat Infrastructure Development Act, 1999 to promote private sector participation in Infrastructure Projects.  Funtions of GIDB are as follows:

• To promote private sector participation in financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the Infrastructure projects.

• To advise the State Govt. and its agencies on the matter of Policy.

• To lay down priority of the projects.

• To consider propowsal and proposed concession agreement to be entered into between State Govt./Govt. agency and private sector developer.

• To undertake feasibility, pre-feasibility studies of the project.

• To monitor the projects undertaken in the State.              

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The scale of the estimated infrastructure requirement in next 10 years requires large investments to be committed. It is envisaged that budgetary allocations will be made for this. But it will only be a part of the entire outlay required. The major resource gap therefore calls for attracting very large-scale private sector capital inflows into the state for infrastructure development. The Gujarat Infrastructure Agenda 2010 seeks to address this requirement and presents the state with a coherent and comprehensive action paper for integrated development across all infrastructure sectors. The agenda develops a prioritized shelf of projects for inviting and attracting private participation for infrastructure development in the state and identifies the policy initiative needed by the state to facilitate the same.

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Gujarat Infrastructure Agenda - Vision 2010 represents the Board's initiatives with regard to the master plan, which spans all major infrastructure sectors over a 10 year planning horizon. The agenda aims to lay down a road map for the development of infrastructure in the state.

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The primary objective of the master plan agenda is to estimate the sector-wise infrastructure requirements of the state for the decade 2000 to Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board and to identify projects and linkages across sectors for co-ordinated development..

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These sectors include Power, ports, transport (Road, Rail and pipelines), industrial parks, urban infrastructure , water supply and miscellaneous sectors like airports gas grid and information infrastructure.

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The issues are as follows :
  

	The ability of the state's economy to finance and sustain the created infrastructure.
	The ability of the state Government to support the development of projects through financial and/or policy supports.

The experience of other countries suggests that private investment requires facilitating Government policies as well as wide ranging sectoral reforms including legislative amendments, restructuring of existing Government operations and the introduction of regulatory mechanism. The review of the policy in each sector aims at identifying these requirements.

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BOT is a nature of concession agreement entered into by the Govt./Govt agency with private sector developer for Infrastructure projects.  As per the GID Act,1999 there are 12 nature of concession agreements including BOOM, BT, BLT, BTO, Lease Mangement, Management Contract, ROT, ROM, Service contract, SOT and Joint Venture agreement.

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•  BOT exhibits Govt. intensions and committments for inviting private sector participation in Infrastructure projects.

• Ease the Budgetary burden.

• Facilities being in private hands, goods and services are delivered to the people  more efficiently.

• Overcome the fiscal constraint of the Govt. in implementing the projects in a time bound manner.

• Implementation of the projects become faster and yield economic growth of the state.
   

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• Disciplines private sector participation project in infrastructure projects by providing transparent procedure for selection of developer.
• Encourages proposals for direct negotiations.
• Provides for levying user charges for the facilities provided by the developer.
• Reduces the Political risk.
• The provision of entering into a concession agreement with private sector developer gives a force of the law to the deal.
• There are 12 nature of concession agreement provided in the schedule of the Act, which gives sufficient liberty to the State Govt. and the private sector to tie up the partnership.
   

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The construction, rehabilitation, improvement, betterment, expansion, modernization, operation, financing and maintenance of the projects identified in the Master Plan Agenda-Vision Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board described above. This also includes other infrastructure and development projects as may be authorized by the appropriate agencies, may be implemented under the provisions of the law and its implementing rules and regulations.

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	Public Bidding or tender of projects; and
	Submission of unsolicited proposals.

The rules governing the conduct of public bidding and unsolicited proposals are clearly specified in the act.

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