India needs $1.5 tn for infrastructure: Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that India needs $1.5 trillion in the next decade to bridge the country's infrastructure gap. The government intends to connect 7 lakh villages with roads by 2019 and undertake 10,000 km of highway construction in 2016, Jaitley added. He also spoke of a massive rural sanitation drive under India's current infrastructure programme.