Produced by the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi. Provides an overview of the need for improvement of the infrastructure in India and makes recommendations for achieving this goal. Discusses the question of commercialization, investments required (1996-2006), the role of the capital market, necessary regulatory frameworks, and fiscal issues. Examines the urban infrastructure as well as other elements such as power, telecommunications, roads, industrial parks and ports. Includes a table of abbreviations and acronyms used in the report.

Well-designed infrastructure development programmes play a key role in reducing poverty and ensuring environmental sustainability. The India Infrastructure Report 2010 emphasizes the need to align infrastructure projects with the goal of a low-carbon economy. Authoritative and insightful, the report examines: Legal and Regulatory Issues; Financing Infrastructure Development; Energy Infrastructure; Transport Infrastructure; Urban Infrastructure; Rural Infrastructure. It reviews the developments in individual sectors-ultra mega power projects, dams, highways, airports, and construction projects. Incorporating case studies from Delhi, Mumbai, and West Bengal, this report highlights policy initiatives taken by the government to achieve a low carbon sustainable economy.

Provides the context, highlights key issues, and focuses on major sub-sectors such as power, water, sewage, and irrigation in rural infrastructure.

Today, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out from secondary school in spite of high financial returns of secondary education, and those who do complete it have inferior conceptual knowledge. Higher education is over-regulated and under-governed, keeping away serious private providers and reputed global institutes. Graduates from high schools, colleges and universities are not readily employable, and few are willing to pay for skill development. Ironically, the Right to Education Act, if strictly enforced, will result in closure of thousands of non-state schools, and millions of poor children will be left without access to education. Eleventh in the series, India Infrastructure Report 2012 discusses challenges in the education sector — elementary, secondary, higher, and vocational — and explores strategies for constructive change and opportunities for the private sector. It suggests that immediate steps are required to reform the sector to reap the benefits from India’s ‘demographic dividend’ due to a rise in the working age population. Result of a collective effort led by the IDFC Foundation, this Report brings together a range of perspectives from academics, researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing educational practices. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers and corporates.

An in-depth examination of the commercialization of infrastructure improvement in India. Studies the impact of the infrastructure on growth and development, new approaches to infrastructure development, and regulatory design. Examines the question of public and private investment in the improvement of the infrastructure and partnerships between the two. Discusses investment and financing, funding sources, the necessary regulatory frameworks, the need for a new approach and goals of regulation, and fiscal benefits and tax issues. Charts and tables. Bibliography.

This report focuses on regulation and industry structure and spells out an agenda of reform and privatization to improve the infrastructure's effectiveness, targetting, and efficiency.