Infrastructure: Engine of India's Development
Infrastructure: Engine of India's Development
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Introduction
Introduction
Imagine you wake up one morning, ready for school. But when you step outside, there are no roads. The buses are gone. No one's mobile phone has any signal. The lights won't turn on, the internet is gone, and the tap is running dry! How would you reach school? How would groceries, and stationery reach your nearest market and your home? How would you access utilities like electricity and water? This is what life might look like without physical infrastructure, which is a vast network of tangible structures built to keep our cities and villages functioning. It includes transportation systems (roads, bridges, railways, etc.), utilities (electricity, water pipelines), communication networks (internet, telephone lines, telecom towers, etc.), energy infrastructure (windmills, solar parks, oil and gas pipelines, etc.) and so on.