Over the past ten years there has been a major change in India's transport infrastructure

New -Delhi, June 11 (IANS). India has seen the development in the field of large -scale infrastructure over the past decade, showing the success of the overall and integrated approach among major national initiatives such as PM Sacker, National Logistics Policy, Bharatmala, Sagarmala and Uno. This information was given in an official report released on Wednesday. This report reflects a sharp change in the transport infrastructure of the country in highways, railway, maritime and civil aviation areas due to large-scale investment by the central government over the past ten years. The report said that the Prime Minister Sampakti prepared an integrated scheme in 44 ministries and 36 states/trade union areas for yeast-based platforms. The PM Capacity National Master Plan, launched in 2021, is an extensive initiative to improve multimodal infrastructure connection in the economic fields of India. 100 Lakh Crore calls are used effectively by this integrated platform. It promotes coordinated development in ministries and state governments based on seven important areas of railways, roads, ports, waterways, airports, mass transport and logistics infrastructure. During the last decade, the length of India’s National Highway Network has increased from 91,287 km to 60 percent to 1,46.204 km, with the speed of the highway of the highway from 11.6 km per day to 34 km per day. Between 2013-14 and 2024-25, the center’s investment in the road infrastructure increased by 6.4 times. Road transport and highway budgets increased by 570 percent from 2014 to 2023-24. Since 2014, Indian Railways budget has increased by more than nine times. The new Bharat semi-high velocity trains covering 24 states/trade union areas and 333 districts show high investment. There are currently 68 these Bharat trains running in the country, while 400 other world -class Bharat trains are planned to be built. Since 2014, more than 31,000 km of new tracks has been laid and more than 45,000 km of tracks have been renewed since 2014. The speed of electrification of track networks increased from 5.188 routes from 2004-14 to over 45,000 routes in 2014-25. The report said that the Railways (by February 2025) increased an annual saving of Rs 2.960 crore due to electrification, which increased financial efficiency. It is further said that the country’s port has doubled over the past ten years to 2,762 mmtpa, as well as the total turnaround for ships, improved from 93 to 49 hours. 277 Projects were completed under Sagarmala to promote the harbor infrastructure. The report also contains a list of major projects completed in the port area, including Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipur Ceport. This project of Rs 8 800 crore to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 2, 2025, is India’s first dedicated container transplant port. It is strategically located near the international shipping routes and can offer the world’s largest cargo ships. This significantly reduces India’s dependence on foreign ports and increases the economic activity in Kerala. The new dry dock (NDD) in Cochin Shipyard Limited costs Rs 1.800 crore, which is 310 meters and depth 13 meters. It is able to handle aircraft carriers up to 70,000 tons. In addition, an international ship recovery facility was installed in Cochin. In the last ten years, the domestic waterway freight of India has increased by 710 percent (18 mmt to 146 mmt). An investment of Rs 5.370 crore has also been approved to increase the capacity of the National Waterway-1 (Haldia to Varanasi), the most important domestic navigation initiative increases the movement of cargo on the Ganges River. The report said that new routes and new airports were added to the country’s civil aviation scenario. The number of current airports in India has increased from 74 in 2014 to 160 in 2025. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the revival and development of leafed and low -services airports at a total cost of Rs 4500 crore. Apart from this, the Finance Committee has also approved an amount of Rs. 1,000 crore under the UDAR scheme and Rs 1,000 crore for the development of 50 airports, helicopter and water airports. The report said that this major plan launched in June 2016 was a great success in creating affordable, yet economically viable and profitable air journey on regional routes, with more than 1.51 crore passengers flying. -Ians abs/abm