Two days after the Centre announced Rs 7 lakh crore investment plan to build more than 83,000 km of highways by 2022, credit ratings agency, Crisil Ratings in its latest report ‘Crisil Infrastructure Yearbook 2017’ has estimated that the infrastructure spending in India is required to be enhanced to Rs 50 lakh crore over the next five years to build the country’s infrastructure in a sustainable manner. This projection factors an average annual GDP growth of 7%, infrastructure investments equal to 5.5% of GDP, and a pick-up in private sector investments after fiscal 2019.
As per the rating agency’s infrastructure investability index, infrastructure investment in India is estimated to have risen to Rs 37 lakh crore, or 5.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), between FY13 and FY17, marking a 56% growth over the Rs 24 lakh crore spent in the preceding five years. The report predicted that power, transport and urban sectors are expected to corner over three-fourths of the overall infrastructure spending. It also pointed out that in FY16 and FY17, higher central government spending partially offset a steep decline in private investments and deterioration in state government finances.
Crisil Ratings has said that weak project preparation, poorly structured contracts with inappropriate risk allocation, irrational bidding exuberance, and over-reliance on bank-led financing in the past have spawned the 'twin balance-sheet problem' of deeply indebted developers and gargantuan stressed assets in banking. It added that the takeover of distribution utility losses under the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana, or UDAY, and the recent agri- loan waivers have further strained state finances.
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