Selected Tag: infrastructure
Selected Tag: infrastructure

How India’s Great Urban Decentralisation Experiment Has Stalled

India’s cities are trapped in a half-decentralised limbo. Powerless mayors, weak finances, and fragmented planning. Three decades after the 74th Amendment, the great urban reform experiment risks becoming a stillborn promise.

Sharmila Chavaly

August 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM IST

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India’s Cities are Not Broken. They’ve been Abandoned

India’s cities have been undone by the collapse of political accountability and the acceptance of dysfunction as ordinary. Without structural reform and genuine local democracy, urban India will remain trapped in a cycle of promises, paralysis and silent abandonment.

Srinath Sridharan

July 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM IST

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Banks Are No Longer The Backbone Of Infrastructure Credit

The RBI’s new project finance guidelines are not about inviting banks back into the sector. They quietly endorse a specialised model already taking shape.

Sujit Kumar

June 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM IST

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India Risks Becoming Data Rich But Cognition Poor In The AI Era

India must move beyond data sovereignty to build and own LLMs as critical infrastructure, ensuring true AI autonomy and cultural integrity.

Krishnadevan V

June 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM IST

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Why India’s Infrastructure Is Breaking Before It’s Even Finished

India’s crumbling bridges and tunnels reflect systemic neglect, weak enforcement, and vanishing accountability. A national crisis is building, before the infrastructure does. 

Sharmila Chavaly

June 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM IST

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Why Infrastructure Is Facing Public Backlash Again

Poor planning, patchy communication, and weak execution are turning solid infrastructure policy into flashpoints of public anger.

Sharmila Chavaly

April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM IST

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