Higher growth and stability in the agricultural sector will also provide a strong demand impetus for the nonagricultural sector (RBI, Annual Report, 2005-06). Infrastructure The sustenance and strengthening of the ongoing manufacturing resurgence will depend critically upon improvements in infrastructure facilities in a number of areas.
Improvements that have taken place in infrastructure facilities in areas such as telecommunications, civil aviation, roads and, to some extent, ports and railways would need to be extended to the power sector. Electricity generation continues to be hampered by policy shortcomings, continued excessive transmission and distribution losses, and collection of dues along with emerging difficulties in the availability of coal and gas.