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Article: India: India Eco Summit: Govt to aim for 85% road projects as PPP.
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- November 9, 2009
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Byline: shiv03
If there is one thing that makes India s growth story patchy, it is its infrastructure. Within the infrastructure deficit, the lack of roads remains the greatest challenge. Although India currently has 3.3 million kilometres of roads the second largest such network in the world the shortage of highways has been a major hurdle for attracting foreign investment.
Of the 71,000 kilometres of national highways, 16,000 are single-lane roads. So when Union road transport minister Kamal Nath spoke at the India Economic Summit to give an update on the highways, it came as an assurance that the road to recovery would not be on bumpy highways. ...