Letter to BS: NIP is a big step towards ambitious dream of $5 trn economy

Hence, it is a welcome step that the government aims to be pragmatic enough to drop laggard projects out of this pipeline as it progresses.

This refers to the editorial "Push for infrastructure"(January 2). The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is a big step towards the ambitious dream of $5 trillion economy in next five years. This massive Rs 102 trillion worth of projects are spread across 18 states and Union Territories and from energy to road and from urban development to railways, each will get its share of the pie from this huge cake. Needless to say various sectors of economy would be benefited from this move. As we have seen in the past, announcing big-ticket projects is fairly common but it's the implementation where