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India's sustained push for infrastructure development is a ray of light in the midst of a worldwide economic downturn exacerbated by the pandemic and, more recently, the Ukraine-Russia crisis. It was also the focus of this year's budget address, as seen by the promise to boost infrastructure capital spending by 35.4 percent over last year. Furthermore, the government has suggested an extra 20,000 crore for national highway expansion; he and the Finance Minister identified roads, trains, ports, airports, mass transportation, waterways, and logistics infrastructure as the seven engines of economic growth.

The second topic concerns infrastructure project completion delays. With a few noteworthy exceptions, construction project management and execution are often relatively slow. According to recent government data, 83 percent of the 1,671 central infrastructure projects worth 150 crores or more that are currently under construction have been delayed or cost overruns. While 514 of these projects had delays, 443 experienced cost overruns. Overruns in both time and expense were recorded in 206 projects.

A similar method might be very beneficial to India as well. It is critical to divide all known reasons for project delays or overruns into two stages: pre-construction and construction. Land purchase, obtaining essential forest or environmental permits, funding, and bidding delays would all fall under the purview of the pre-construction stage.