"What I am telling the investors here and the government here is that there is a huge opportunity in India, especially in infrastructure," Chidambaram told NDTV.
"There is no other country in the world which requires so many thousand kilometres of road, so many airports, so many seaports, so much more capacity of steel, mining, power. So I think the opportunities are unlimited," he said.
Referring to rate of price rise, he said, "inflation has come down sharply in the last two months and I think numbers for April is doing better. In fact, we are talking about core inflation having reached a zero level."
Manufacturing inflation or core inflation stood at 3.41 per cent in April.
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