{"id":536226,"date":"2022-11-15T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536226"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T06:09:45","slug":"india-needs-to-increase-urban-infrastructure-investments-to-55-billion-a-year-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-needs-to-increase-urban-infrastructure-investments-to-55-billion-a-year-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs to increase urban infrastructure investments to $55 billion a year: World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To meet the needs of the growing urban population, India needs to increase its annual investment in city infrastructure from an average of $10.6 billion a year in the past decade to an average of $55 billion a year for the next 15 years, a World Bank report released Monday said.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled \u2018Financing India\u2019s Infrastructure Needs: Constraints to Commercial Financing and Prospects for Policy Action\u2019, estimated that India would need $840 billion over the next 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2036, 600 million people will be living in urban cities in India, representing 40% of the population. This is likely to put additional pressure on the already stretched urban infrastructure and services of Indian cities \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To meet the needs of the growing urban population, India needs to increase its annual investment in city infrastructure from an average of $10.6 billion a year in the past decade to an average of $55 billion a year for the next 15 years, a World Bank report released Monday said. The report, titled \u2018Financing India\u2019s Infrastructure Needs: Constraints to Commercial Financing and Prospects for Policy Action\u2019, estimated that India would need $840 billion over the next 15 years. \u201cBy 2036, 600 million people will be living in urban cities in India, representing 40% of the population. This is likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536226","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}