Budget on Infrastructure

Budget on Infrastructure

Group -1 Akshat, Ankita, Harish, Hitesh, Sriram, Dipak

KEY HIGHLIGHTSInfrastructure one of the major challenge our country has to deal with Increase in infrastructural investments- Rs. 70,000 crore Stress to increase public investmentsMain focus on Public Private Partnership(PPP) restructuring and revitalizingState will have to bear a major part of the risk in infrastructural projects

Increased support to Roadways by Rs. 14,031 croresIncreased support to Railways by Rs.10,050 croresThe capital expenditure of the public sector units is expected to be Rs 3,17,889 crore- an increase of approximately Rs. 80,844 crore over Revised Estimates(RE) 2014-15Plans to establish a National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to ensure an annual flow of Rs 20,000 crore to itTax-free infrastructure bonds for projects in roads, rail and irrigation projects

Proposals for 5 Ultra mega" power projects of 4,000 MW eachSecond unit of Kudankulam nuclear power station to be commissionedClearance and linkages to be based on Auction system- Unlocking the investment to the tune of 1 lakh crore Connecting each of the 1,78,000 unconnected habitations by all-weather roadsBuilding additional 100,000 km. of roads

Rise of 4% in excise duty on petrol and diesel- Rs 40000 increase in revenueTop priorities will be given to Northeast region in terms of development of infrastructure

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