//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>249 : India’s Infrastructure Needs
Ishraq Ahmed, Research Associate at the ISAS
27 August 2012
The recent power blackout in India has shed light on the poor condition of the country's infrastructure. Government spending on infrastructure has been long overdue even before the blackout took place in much of north India. For India to sustain its economic growth and development, spending has to be stimulated, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.