Golden Quad to be complete this year |
Team BS / New Delhi February 28, 2006 |
Given the recent success in privatising the Delhi and Mumbai airports, the announcement of the railway freight corridor project, and the rapid growth in the telecom sector, anything the budget announced in the infrastructure sector was expected to be a bonus. Even so, the government announced a step up of the central plan outlay in the power, telecom and transport sector of around Rs 20,000 crore with the total outlay in 2006-07 expected to be around Rs 100,000 crore -- around half of this is for the transport sector and 30 per cent for power. Responding to the previous goverment |