India Infrastructure Development Decade 2014-2026
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9th Jun 2026
Extracted Data Points
Overall Infrastructure Investment
- Public capital expenditure increased from ₹2 lakh crore in FY2014–15 to ₹12.2 lakh crore in FY2026–27
- Nearly ₹3.7 lakh crore invested in metro expansion over twelve years
- Investments exceeding ₹1.4 lakh crore in aviation infrastructure
Railways Infrastructure
- Budgetary support increased from ₹32,000 crore in 2014–15 to ₹2.78 lakh crore in FY2026–27 (nine-fold rise)
- Electrification coverage rose from 20% to 99.6% by March 2026
- 69,873 route kilometers electrified
- 162 Vande Bharat train services operational as of April 2026
- Vande Bharat Sleeper carried 1.21 lakh passengers across 119 trips in first three months
- 60 Amrit Bharat Express services operational
- Train punctuality improved to over 77%
- Kavach system deployed across 3,103 route km, implementation underway on 24,427 km
- Installed on 4,277 locomotives, work in progress on 8,979 locomotives
- Train accidents declined from 135 in 2014–15 to 16 in 2025–26
- 139 PM Gati Shakti terminals operational, 300 additional locations approved
Major Railway Projects
- Chenab Bridge (2025): 359 meters high, 1,315-meter-long steel structure
- Anji Khad Bridge (2025): India's first cable-stayed railway bridge
- Pamban Bridge (2025): 2.07 km vertical-lift railway sea bridge with 72.5-meter lift span
- Bairabi–Sairang (2025): 51.38 km railway line with 45 tunnels
Roads and Highways
- Total road network: 63.73 lakh km (second-largest globally)
- National highways increased 61% from 91,287 km in FY14 to 1,46,566 km in March 2026
- Four-lane and above national highways increased from 18,371 km to 45,516 km
- 3,644 km of access-controlled high-speed corridors/expressways operationalized
- PMGSY allocation increased from ₹386 crore in 2014–15 to ₹19,000 crore in 2026–27
- 99.6% of eligible habitations connected under PMGSY
- Completed roads: 4.11 lakh km during 2014–2026 vs 3.86 lakh km during 2000–2014
- Completed bridges: 10,293 during 2014–2026 vs 484 during 2000–2014
- Bharatmala: 22,590 km of roads completed till 31 March 2026
Major Road Projects
- Z-Morh/Sonamarg Tunnel (2025): 12-km-long tunnel
- Sudarshan Setu (2024): 2.32-km-long bridge
- Maitri Setu (2021): 1.9-km bridge
- Atal Tunnel (2020): 9.02-km-long tunnel (world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet)
- Reduces Manali–Sarchu distance by 46 km
- Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee Tunnel (2017): 9-km-long tunnel, reduced travel distance by 31 km
- Employed over 2,000 local workers (94% from Jammu and Kashmir)
- Dhola-Sadiya Bridge (2017): 9.15 km bridge
- Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway (2026): 109 km
- Delhi–Dehradun Economic Corridor (2026): 213 km, reduced travel time from 6+ hours to 2.5 hours
- Delhi Section of Dwarka Expressway (2025): 10.1 km with eight-lane shallow tunnel
- Urban Extension Road-II (2025): 76 km
- Bridge over River Ganga on NH-31 (2025): Reduced travel distance by over 100 km
Civil Aviation
- Operational airports increased from 74 in 2014 to 165 in 2026
- UDAN scheme: 665 routes connect 95 airports, heliports, and water aerodromes
- Benefited over 1.64 crore passengers
- Modified UDAN scheme (2026): ₹28,840 crore outlay to connect 120 new destinations
- 25 greenfield airports approved after 2014
- Digi Yatra operational at 38 airports, benefiting over 9.3 crore passengers
- GAGAN operationalized in 2015 (world's first equatorial SBAS)
Metro Systems
- Metro network length increased from 248 km in 2014 to over 1,155 km in 2026 (world's third-largest)
- Cities with metro connectivity increased from 5 in 2014 to 26 in 2025
- Daily ridership increased from 28 lakh passengers to over 1.15 crore passengers
- Commissioning pace increased from 0.68 km per month to nearly 6 km per month
- Annual budgetary support increased from ₹5,798 crore in 2013–14 to ₹29,550 crore in 2025–26
- BEML manufactured more than 2,100 metro coaches by March 2026
- Kolkata launched India's first underwater metro tunnel in 2024
- Kochi launched Water Metro Project connecting 10 islands
Ports and Shipping
- Handles 95% of India's trade by volume and 70% by value
- Major port capacity nearly doubled from 873 MMTPA in 2014 to 1,726 MMTPA in 2026
- Cargo handled increased from 581 MMT to 915 MMT
- Vessel turnaround time improved from 94 hours to 48.8 hours
- Net annual surplus increased from ₹1,805 crore in 2014 to ₹10,910 crore in 2026
- Operating ratio improved from 65% to 41%
- Sagarmala: 78 projects worth ₹5,356.75 crore completed by March 2026
- Indian-flagged ships increased from 1,250 in 2014 to 1,593 in 2026
- Gross tonnage rose from 10.5 MGT to 14.2 MGT
- Coastal shipping cargo grew from 74 MMT to 215.29 MMT
- Seafarers increased from 1.27 lakh to 3.20 lakh
Inland Waterways
- National Waterways expanded from 5 in 2014 to 111 in 2026 (20,187 km across 23 States and 4 UTs)
- 32 waterways operational as of March 2026
- Cargo movement rose from 29 MMT to 218 MMT
- Ferry and Ro-Pax passenger movement reached 10.55 crore
- Jal Marg Vikas Project: Cargo increased from 5.05 MMT in 2014–15 to 16.38 MMT in 2024–25 on NW-1
- 66 community jetties operational along NW-1, serving 1.22 lakh users daily
- Sea cruise passengers increased from 1.10 lakh in 2014 to 4.62 lakh in 2026
- River cruise routes expanded from 3 to 17
Industrial Infrastructure
- 4,220 industrial parks mapped on India Industrial Land Bank covering 6.98 lakh hectares
- 1.33 lakh hectares of land available
- 272 plug-and-play industrial parks operational
- 20 industrial smart cities under development
- BHAVYA scheme: 100 new plug-and-play industrial parks
- Union Budget 2026–27 proposed three chemical parks, seven PM MITRA parks, and ₹10,000 crore Biopharma SHAKTI programme
Logistics
- PM GatiShakti National Master Plan uses 3,202 data layers as of June 2026
- Logistics Performance Index rank improved from 54 in 2014 to 38 in 2023
- Target: Top 25 by 2030
- ULIP recorded over 100 crore API transactions by March 2025
- Logistics Data Bank tracked over 75 million EXIM containers by October 2024
- 11.86 crore FASTags issued by December 2025, 98% toll collection through electronic transactions
- PRAGATI reviewed 382 projects worth over ₹85 lakh crore, resolved 2,958 issues
Water Infrastructure
- Jal Jeevan Mission: Tap water coverage increased from 17% (3.23 crore households) to 81.94% (15.86 crore households) by June 2026
- Mission extended till 2028 for universal coverage
- 66 community jetties operational along NW-1
Housing
- PMAY-U: ₹8.77 lakh crore allocated
- 125.31 lakh houses sanctioned, 98.10 lakh houses completed by May 2026
- 8.04 lakh houses built during 2005–2014
- ₹59,318 crore interest subsidy disbursed under CLSS
- 96% of PMAY-U 2.0 houses allotted to women
- PMAY-G: 4.95 crore houses target by March 2029
- Additional 2 crore houses approved in 2024 for 2024–25 to 2028–29
- 3.91 crore houses sanctioned, 3.06 crore houses completed by June 2026
- 75% beneficiaries are women
- SWAMIH Fund: ₹15,531 crore corpus, delivered 63,000 homes, covering 1,01,443 homes portfolio
- AMRUT: Projects worth ₹2.79 lakh crore sanctioned vs ₹62,983 crore under JnNURM
- 2.53 crore tap water connections provided, 7,943 urban infrastructure projects completed
Energy
- Power shortage declined from 4.2% in 2014 to 0.03% in 2025–26
- Rural electricity availability increased from 12.5 hours to 22.6 hours per day
- DISCOM finances: From losses of ₹67,962 crore in FY2013–14 to profits of ₹2,701 crore in FY2024–25
- Installed power capacity reached 532.74 GW by March 2026 vs 248 GW in 2014
- Achieved 40% non-fossil fuel electricity capacity target decade ahead of schedule
- 3rd largest clean energy capacity globally
- 4th largest installed wind energy capacity globally
- PM Surya Ghar: Target one crore household rooftop solar systems
- 1,014 functional GOBARdhan plants operational as of March 2026
- Saubhagya Scheme: 2.86 crore households electrified
- International Solar Alliance: 125 member countries
- Global Biofuels Alliance: 33 countries and 14 international organizations as of 1 June 2026
Clean Cooking Access
- National LPG coverage increased from 55.9% in 2014 to 107.2% in 2026
- LPG consumers increased from 14.51 crore to 33.39 crore
- LPG consumption increased from 17.6 MMT in FY2014–15 to 34 MMT in FY2025–26
- PMUY: 49.21 crore cylinders delivered in FY2025–26 (15.9 lakh daily average)
- Additional 25 lakh LPG connections approved under PMUY during FY2025–26
- Average annual refill consumption increased from 3.68 refills in FY2021–22 to 4.71 refills in FY2025–26
Digital Infrastructure
- Tele-density increased from 75.23% in 2014 to 86.23% in 2025
- Internet connections increased from 25.15 crore to 100.29 crore
- Broadband connections rose from 6.1 crore to 99.56 crore
- Average monthly data consumption increased from 61.66 MB to 24.01 GB
- 85.5% households own at least one smartphone
- PM-WANI: Over 4.10 lakh Wi-Fi hotspots operational as of June 2026
- 5G services available in 99.9% of districts with 85% population coverage
- 5.08 lakh 5G BTS installed
- Aadhaar increased from 63.22 crore in 2014 to over 144 crore by March 2026
- Jan Dhan accounts increased from 14.72 crore in 2015 to 57.71 crore in 2026
- UPI processed 2,264 crore transactions worth ₹29.53 lakh crore in March 2026
- UPI operational in 8 countries
- DigiLocker: 68.91 crore+ registered users, 967 crore+ digital documents
- UMANG: 10.93 crore users
- CSCs: From 0.83 lakh centres in 2014 to 5.01 lakh functional centres by April 2026
- eHospital: 4,100 hospitals connected, 55 crore+ transactions
- DIKSHA: 2 crore+ registered users, 7,497 Energized Textbooks, 3.74 lakh+ e-content resources
- SWAYAM: 6.1 crore+ enrolments, 280+ DTH channels