Bangalore’s Kempegowda International Airport (BIAL) was voted by customers as the “Best Regional Airport in India & Central Asia” for the third time in four years at the 2020 World Airport Awards.

The extended lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, which has stalled traffic on the ground as in the air, is expected to heap enormous losses on infrastructure industries in both sectors.

India is blessed with a very long coastline and has a port infrastructure that is envied by some of the countries in the Asian region.

Just as 2019 drew to a close, the Central Government unveiled the Rs 102-trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) to boost annual investment in the sector.

Meanwhile, after coming to power in 2014, though the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) understood the enormity of the problem it decided to make do with engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) as a stop-gap measure.

While the waterfront of a port is difficult to alter, mechanisation of terminals can be done easily, and is central to turnaround strategies, says Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Practise Leader & Director, Transport & Logistics, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) in tandem with the government is developing airports across the country to add value to the aviation infrastructure. Improved connectivity will certainly boost the nation's economy.

Infrastructure investments by Indian states need to rise to nearly Rs 110 trillion over the next decade (fiscal 2021-2030), or 3.5 times an estimated Rs 32 trillion in the current decade, if the country is to achieve its mammoth infrastructure buildout targets, analytics firm CRISIL projected on Tuesday.

Imagine railway stations in India resembling airports! No fantasy, this! It's happening and happening at great speed.