Infrastructure push: Monetising assets, such as railway stations, requires a supporting institutional mechanism February 5, 2021, 8:26 AM IST
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A highlight of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech was setting out the government’s intent to develop infrastructure. This is expected to be the springboard of economic growth. Building blocks for this approach were put in place before the pandemic, when the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) was launched in December 2019. It now has a pipeline of 7,400 projects, which requires major funding expansion from both government and private sector.