India's budget 2014-15 with special reference to infrastructure

1. Infrastructure
Budget 2014-2015
PAWEL GAUTAM

2. Introduction
• Infrastructure refers to the basic
physical and organizational structures
needed for the operation of a society
or enterprise, or the services and
facilities necessary for an economy to
function

4. Shipping

5. • Sixteen new port projects are proposed to
be awarded this year with a focus on port
connectivity.
• 11,635 crore will be allocated for the
development of Outer Harbour Project in
Tuticorin for phase I.
• SEZs will also be developed in Kandla and
JNPT
• Single-window customs clearances at
Indian ports.

7. Airports in tier I and tier II cities to be
developed via the public-private
partnership model.

9. • Propose investment in National
Highways Authority of India and State
Roads of an amount of `37,880 crores,
which includes 3,000 crores for the North
East.
• the Budget allocates Rs 14,389 crore for
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna
(PMGSY).

11. • To ensure 24×7 uninterrupted power supplies
in rural areas, Union Budget 2014 has
announced Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti
Yojana and earmarked Rs 500 crore for the
scheme.
• To promote cleaner and more efficient thermal
power, FM propose to allocate an initial sum of
100 crore for preparatory work for a new
scheme “Ultra-Modern Super Critical Coal
Based Thermal Power Technology.”

12. • launching a scheme for solar power driven
agricultural pump sets and water pumping
stations for energizing one lakh pumps. FM
propose to allocate a sum of 400 crores for this
purpose.
• 100 crore is set aside for the development of 1
MW Solar Parks on the banks of canals

14. • Commitment to develop 100 smart cities
with an outlay of Rs7,060 crore.
• Rs12,000 crore allocation to National
Housing Bank for funding low-cost
housing in urban and rural areas.
• Built-up area for foreign direct investment
(FDI) in real estate decreased from
50,000 sq. m to 20,000 sq. m and
minimum capital requirement halved to
$5 million.

15. Other Infrastructure
Projects

16. • For scientific warehousing infrastructure, the
Budget has allocated Rs 5,000 crore.
• To strengthen and modernise the boarder
infrastructure, the Budget has earmarked Rs
2250 crore

17. • Union Budget has proposed to raise the
corpus of Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) by an
additional Rs 5,000 crore.
• Rs 100 crores has been set aside for the
Agri-tech infrastructural funds.

18. You and I come by road or
rail, but economists travel
on infrastructure.