Infrastructure The Eleventh Five Year Plan envisages stepping up of the gross capital formation in infrastructure from 5 per cent of GDP in 2006-07 to 9 per cent of GDP by end of the Plan period in 2011-12, which could be critical for achieving the 9 per cent growth.
It has estimated an investment requirement of $ 502.88 billion (Rs.20,11,521 crore) in infrastructure, around 30 per cent (about 6 lakh) of which is expected to be financed by the private sector. Banks’ exposure to infrastructure lending has grown nearly fourfold since March 2005, from 6 per cent to about 9.25 percent of bank credit in March 2009.