Any credit facility in whatever form extended by lenders (i.e., banks, FIs NBFCs) to an infrastructure facility as specified below falls within the definition of "infrastructure lending". In other words, a credit facility provided to a borrower company engaged in
Developing, or, Operating and maintaining, or, Developing, operating and maintaining any infrastructure facility that is a project in any of the following sectors
(i) a road, including toll road, a bridge or a rail system;
(ii) a highway project including other activities, being an integral part of the highway project;
(iii) a port, airport, inland waterway or inland port;
(iv) a water supply project, irrigation project, water treatment system, sanitation and sewerage system or solid waste management system;
(v) telecommunication services whether basic or cellular, including radio paging, domestic satellite service (i.e., a satellite owned and operated by an Indian company for providing telecommunication service), network of trunking broadband network and internet services
(vi) an industrial park or special economic zone;
(vii) generation or generation and distribution of power;
(viii) transmission or distribution of power by laying a network of new transmission or distribution lines;
(ix) any other infrastructure facility of similar nature.