Arjun Mehta
Signs off the financial statements in every DPR. Sixteen years across assurance, audit and institutional credit documentation — the standard a credit committee and a statutory auditor expect is the standard he prepares to.
Professional-authored detailed project reports for promoters, boards and CFOs committing ₹5 crore and above, prepared by named senior advisors — former bankers, sector economists and corporate finance specialists. Practising since 2010. Every DPR is written to the evidentiary standard of the institution receiving it, quoted as a fixed fee in writing, and delivered on the committed date.
Twelve modules, named in the vocabulary a credit committee uses internally. A DPR consultant who cannot name them is describing a pre-built document, not a DPR.
Displayed for inspection; never offered as a download. Redacted where the client requires it — otherwise exactly as the DPR consultant submitted it to the institution. Three of the six are not financial pages — they prove a practice, not a spreadsheet.
No anonymous team. Each detailed project report is held by a named accountable partner and read adversarially by a second before it leaves the practice. The people below are accountable for it. Behind them sits the practice that produces it.
Market sections are drawn from paid subscription databases and cited in-document. Engineering drawings, structural decisions and utility matrices are produced in-house — the three-quarters of a Corporate DPR that precede the financials.
A DPR consultant who accepts every enquiry is not selective about the work. Projectzo is — and says so at the first conversation, so a proposal outside scope is not charged for a conversation it does not need.
The fee tracks the work a proposal needs — not its size. Every engagement is authored by the practice’s professionals; what changes across the scopes is how much site, engineering, market and structural work the proposal requires.
Promoter and group profile, cost of project and block capital, means of finance, CMA data in the six prescribed forms, full projections, ratio and sensitivity analysis — the complete DPR.
Everything in the Standard DPR, plus site and infrastructure analysis, plant layout and engineering drawings, manufacturing process design, market feasibility from subscription data and go-to-market analysis.
Everything in the Professional DPR, plus multi-unit modelling, consortium debt structuring, state incentive and IND-AS 20 treatment, land allotment documentation and investor-committee material.
Fee names the scope of the DPR, not the page count.
A ₹6 crore single-unit expansion on a standard term-loan structure is a Standard engagement at ₹55,999. A greenfield unit of the same size needing site analysis, plant layout and market feasibility is a Professional engagement, quoted at the first conversation. Project size alone does not decide the fee — the work the proposal needs does.
Quoted in writing before any work on the DPR begins. No hourly billing.
Queries raised by the institution on the DPR are answered within the engagement, not invoiced.
The quotation states the exact delivery date.
Vagueness about timelines is how a DPR consultant signals inexperience to a promoter working to a sanction deadline. The quotation states the date.
A scoping conversation with the consultant who will author the DPR. An input checklist follows, then an official quotation stating the fixed fee and the exact delivery date.
Modelling, covenant testing and instrument mapping by the assigned advisors; then a line-by-line adversarial read by the accountable partner before anything leaves the practice.
A submission-ready DPR, followed by written responses to the institution’s queries and versioned re-issues — within the fee.
Consortium lead banks, NBFCs, rating agencies, state industrial development corporations and incentive boards — 490+ institutions have sanctioned on the strength of a Projectzo detailed project report. The cases below are drawn from the practice's engagement records: ticket size, sector, instrument, outcome.







Promoters are not named and figures are rounded. Each record is held in the practice's engagement file with the sanction letter and the quotation that fixed the delivery date.
The DPR is built to the structure a credit committee is trained to read: leverage and coverage ratios computed to the lender's own covenants, incentives treated the way its policy prefers, and a sensitivity schedule that answers the committee's questions before they are asked.
Where a lender appoints an independent TEV consultant or an LIE, the DPR consultant prepares the detailed project report so the reviewer validates rather than rebuilds — which is what keeps a sanction on its original timeline.
What a detailed project report must contain for an institution to appraise it, which schemes it serves, and where regulatory treatment applies.
A DPR for a bank loan runs from promoter profile and feasibility to the financial core: cost of project, means of finance, projections and CMA data in the six prescribed forms. A competent DPR consultant writes each section for credit-committee scrutiny.
On a bank loan of ₹5 crore and above, lenders test covenants: debt-equity of 2:1 to 3:1, DSCR averaging 1.50 (floor 1.25), TOL/TNW and current ratio within band, Tandon Method II for working capital. The DPR consultant stress-tests each against the lender's own covenant — see DSCR, MPBF and the current ratio and sensitivity analysis in a project report.
Capital subsidies vary by state and project size, PLI tracks incremental production, and larger exposures draw TEV review. Grants under IND-AS 20 must run consistently through depreciation, DSCR and means of finance — the section most often rebuilt at the branch, and the one a detailed project report consultant gets right first.
Engagements are handled remotely by the same named DPR consultant; site visits are arranged where the institution or the project requires one.
Headquartered in Ahmedabad. Proposals from Indian promoters abroad, and from ventures in the USA, UAE and the Netherlands, are prepared by the same consultant to the standard of the institution the DPR will be submitted to.
Each answer states its conclusion in the first sentence. Fourteen questions; all marked up for search.