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Infrastructure & Investment Models
GS-III: Economy, Environment, Security, Disaster & Technology
Useful for: UPSC Civil Services
Overview
Infrastructure investment drives growth; success depends on financing models, risk sharing, logistics planning and asset recycling.
Key points
- The Kelkar Committee (2015) recommended revisiting and revitalising PPPs with better risk sharing.
- The National Monetisation Pipeline (2021) leases existing public assets to raise funds.
- The National Logistics Policy (2022) aims to cut logistics costs.
- PM Gati Shakti integrates infrastructure planning across ministries.
- Dedicated Freight Corridors improve rail freight capacity.
- Long-term finance is supported by NaBFID and InvITs.
Practice MCQs
From the perspective of definition and scope, which one of the following statements about Infrastructure & Investment Models is correct?
- Infrastructure & Investment Models is unrelated to institutions, processes or real-world applications.
- Infrastructure & Investment Models has no exceptions or limitations in exam analysis.
- Infrastructure creates network effects but projects must be assessed for demand, finance, land, regulation, environment and maintenance.
- PPP means the private partner bears all project risks and the government has no continuing responsibility.
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Answer: (c) Infrastructure creates network effects but projects must be assessed for demand, finance, land, regulation, environment and maintenance.. Infrastructure creates network effects but projects must be assessed for demand, finance, land, regulation, environment and maintenance.
Consider the following statements on Infrastructure & Investment Models and Land Reforms & Rural Institutions, focusing on definition and scope: 1. PPP means the private partner bears all project risks and the government has no continuing responsibility. 2. Digitising an inaccurate land record automatically creates a legally correct title. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (d) Neither 1 nor 2. Neither statement is correct; both are common misconceptions.
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