Finance Minister unveils Rs 102 lakh crore infra projects to achieve $5 trillion economy target

01 Jan 2020 Evaluate

In order to achieve the target of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled Rs 102 lakh crore of national infrastructure projects, including Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed rail, that will be implemented in the next five years. She also said another Rs 3 lakh crore of projects will be added to this pipeline that includes Jewar Airport and Jal Jeevan Mission. She noted that of the Rs 102 lakh crore projects, Rs 42.7 lakh crore (43 percent) projects are under implementation, Rs 32.7 lakh crore (about 33 percent) worth of projects are at conceptualisation stage and Rs 19.1 lakh crore (about 19 per cent) worth of projects are under development.

The minister has stated that the projects are spread across 22 ministries and 18 states and union territories. Besides, she said the government also intends to launch NIP, National Infrastructure Pipeline, a coordination mechanism consisting of the Centre, states and also the private sector for information dissemination together with monitoring the implementation of this entire framework. She added that these projects are on top of Rs 51 lakh crore spent by the Centre and the states during the last six years.

With regard to investment, Sitharaman said that the new pipeline consists of 39 percent projects each by the Centre and states and the balance by 22 percent by private sector which could increase to 30 percent by 2025. On the financing, she said the government will look at deepening of debt market and alternative investment funds which will provide bulk of the debt financing necessary for this.

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