{"id":335201,"date":"2020-02-01T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335201"},"modified":"2020-02-01T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:25:20","slug":"economic-survey-2020-investments-of-1-4-trillion-in-infra-by-fy25-to-prop-up-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/economic-survey-2020-investments-of-1-4-trillion-in-infra-by-fy25-to-prop-up-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Survey 2020: Investments of $1.4 trillion in infra by FY25 to prop up growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Survey 2020: In line with the National Infrastructure Pipeline, unveiled by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on December 31, the Survey also pegged India\u2019s infrastructure investment at $1.4 trillion by 2024-25 and said the projected investment could propel India to a $5-trillion GDP in 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a smooth and fast development, India needs adequate and timely investment in quality infrastructure,\u201d the survey said. However, apart from other bottlenecks, challenge remains in stepping up of annual investment; but the lack of infrastructure should not become a binding constraint on the country\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>NIP projected Rs 102 lakh-crore spend on infrastructure between 2020 and 2025, of which energy (24%), roads (19%), urban (16%) and railways (13%) amount to over 70% of the projected expenditure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Survey 2020: In line with the National Infrastructure Pipeline, unveiled by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on December 31, the Survey also pegged India\u2019s infrastructure investment at $1.4 trillion by 2024-25 and said the projected investment could propel India to a $5-trillion GDP in 5 years. \u201cFor a smooth and fast development, India needs adequate and timely investment in quality infrastructure,\u201d the survey said. However, apart from other bottlenecks, challenge remains in stepping up of annual investment; but the lack of infrastructure should not become a binding constraint on the country\u2019s growth. NIP projected Rs 102 lakh-crore spend on infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}