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Power to ports: The making of Indian infrastructure
Business Standard
|August 29, 2025
Ministers and industry leaders hail India's infra transformation but underline the next frontier — balancing investments with sustainability, faster clearances, and affordable financing — for the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision
Sample these figures: 10 km/day > Average pace of highway construction
90% > Railway network still running on diesel locomotives
40% > Aggregate technical & commercial losses in power sector
3% > Share of the population travelling by air
These numbers capture the state of India's infrastructure in the 1990s. Hard to believe, but true. If quality infrastructure is the backbone of rapid economic growth, it is little surprise that the pre-2000 Indian economy was marked by stifling state monopolies and unsustainable leakages across sectors.
Now, cut to 2025
The data tell a story of dramatic change:
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