The Union Cabinet has approved a bill to set up a Development Finance Institution (DFI) to raise long-term capital to fund infrastructure development, as the government has envisaged an investment of Rs 111 lakh crore by 2025. The DFI will be managed by a professional board, comprising at least 50 per cent non-official directors. The proposed legislation will give effect to the Budget announcement made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. The government has proposed Rs 20,000 crore to capitalise the institution.
Sitharaman expects the proposed institution to raise up to Rs 3 lakh crore in the next few years because it will have access to the market funds, which are otherwise not available. She said ‘we expect even big pension funds, sovereign funds would all come... as we are able to attract them in the national infrastructure investment fund.’
In her Budget 2019-20 speech, the minister had proposed a study for setting up DFIs for promoting infrastructure funding. About 7,000 projects have been identified under the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) with a projected investment of Rs 111 lakh crore during 2020-25. NIP, a first-of-its-kind initiative to provide world-class infrastructure across the country and improve the quality of life for all citizens, will be crucial for attaining the target of becoming a $5 trillion economy by FY 2025.
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