BS Infra Summit: From power to ports, making of Indian infrastructure

India's infrastructure story shines at BS Summit 2025, with leaders charting bold visions in roads, ports, energy, and aviation to power Viksit Bharat 2047

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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