CapitaLand India Trust CEO bullish on growth opportunities amid global jitters

Sanjeev Dasgupta, CEO of the trustee-manager of Clint, is positioning the S-Reit to seize opportunities emerging from India’s data centre and IT sectors.

Jude Chan

Published Mon, Jan 9, 2023 · 05:50 AM

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IT HAS been a busy couple of months for CapitaLand India Trust : CY6U 0% (Clint).

At a time when most of its Singapore-listed real estate investment trust (S-Reit) peers have seen muted activity due to uncertainty from surging inflation and interest rates, Clint is on the warpath.

“If you read some of the research coming out in the last three months – be it Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs or McKinsey – they all seem to be thinking that India will be one of the strongest growth markets in the world,” said Sanjeev Dasgupta, chief executive officer of Clint’s trustee-manager.

And Dasgupta is wasting no time in ensuring that Clint is positioned to capture that growth.

Building clout in cloud

In December 2022 alone, Clint signed two deals to expand its data centre foo…