India's Infrastructure

Crisil Intelligence said that the Budget aims to strengthen both manufacturing and services to support the next phase of growth

Budget 2026: The Budget lays out new schemes and higher spending on infrastructure, technology, healthcare and jobs, while offering support for industry and students

Budget 2026 outlines seven high-speed rail corridors linking cities such as Mumbai-Pune and Delhi-Varanasi, aiming to cut travel time, reduce carbon emissions and support balanced regional development

Union Budget 2026 scales up capital spending to ₹12.2 trillion, keeping infrastructure at the centre of growth while signalling continued commitment to fiscal consolidation

The World Bank Group and India on Friday announced a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF), envisaging USD 8-10 billion in annual financing over the next five years to help accelerate India's next phase of growth and support its vision of becoming a developed economy. The Union Finance Minister welcomed the new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with the World Bank Group, which is fully aligned with India's Viksit Bharat vision. The CPF focuses on leveraging public funds with private capital, creating more jobs across rural and urban India, and enriching projects with the World Bank Group's global knowledge, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said after the World Bank team led by President Ajay Banga called on her. Both leaders also discussed ways to deepen India-World Bank cooperation in support of India's long-term development vision of Viksit Bharat, the finance ministry said in a post on X. "Leveraging public funds with private capital, creating more jobs across rural and .

Managers expects infra-linked sectors to see robust growth over FY26-FY30, as stable order books, and strong free-cash-flow generation drives the sector

India stands to reduce trade costs and significantly boost export competitiveness by embracing paperless trading systems, with such initiatives expected to cut trade costs of economies in the Asia-Pacific region by about 25 per cent, according to a joint report by policy think tanks ICRIER and RIS. Cross-border paperless trade, which builds on the broader idea of paperless trade and refers to conducting trade through electronic communication, is gaining momentum regionally with the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (CPTA) being a key driver. Countries joining this agreement benefit from streamlined trade procedures, lower logistics costs, and improved regulatory cooperation. As of January 2025, 16 countries are a part of the CPTA. India has taken multiple domestic reforms, including the Single Window Interface for Facilitating Trade (SWIFT) and electronic handling of indirect tax documents, yet it has not joined the CPTA so .

The GatiShakti framework, launched in 2021, sought to correct this by integrating geospatial data across the transport, energy, logistics, and urban sectors

L&T hit 10-month high of ₹3,837.95 is quoting close to its all-time high level of ₹3,963, touched on December 10, 2024.

Launched four years ago, the GatiShakti NMP is a digital platform that intends to reshape how India approaches infrastructure development

Projects include the first phase of Navi Mumbai International Airport and the second phase of Mumbai Metro Line 3, connecting South Mumbai with key suburbs

States such as Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are preparing to launch independent InvITs

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The Centre has issued new SOPs for tunnel projects, requiring at least three alternative alignments to minimise environmental and social impact and reduce cost overruns

While most of the cities in India had been fairly well planned, rapid growth, especially post-1991, has outpaced existing infrastructure systems, policies, and regulations, said Shah

Experts at the Business Standard Infra Summit said India must rely more on public-private partnerships (PPP) to fund new projects, as government resources alone cannot meet growing needs

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic praised India's growing interest in maritime trade routes to the Mediterranean when he met his Indian counterpart in June

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has reviewed 18 issues affecting 11 infrastructure projects in Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland, an official statement said on Thursday. The meeting, chaired by DPIIT Secretary Amardeep Bhatia, was attended by senior officials from central ministries, state governments, and project proponents. "In the meeting, 18 issues across 11 significant projects were reviewed in the state of Jharkhand, with a total cost of all projects exceeding Rs 34,213 crore," the commerce and industry ministry said. The Patratu Thermal Power Station Expansion Project Phase-I pertaining to the state of Jharkhand was reviewed in detail, it said. It added that issues on a private sector project of GeoEnpro Petroleum Ltd in Arunachal Pradesh, worth Rs 1,000 crore, were also reviewed. The Secretary advised the state government to accord high priority to the matter and extend all necessary support to GeoEnpro to ensure t

Electricity generation contracted for the first time in nine months, with a 5.8 per cent drop that marked the sharpest downturn since June 2020

ADB President Masato Kanda announces a five-year plan aimed at transforming urban infrastructure across India; metro expansion, RRTS corridors and skills programmes in focus