Infra update

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will head a committee on infrastructure that is expected to streamline progress of key sectors, which the government has identified as critical to the economy. The Budget has already set its sights on development of roads, ports, airports, rural electrification and several rural development schemes like irrigation. The PMO has also set up a monitoring cell for the flagship programmes and the committee on infrastructure is expected to look at the big picture and perhaps work on the cell’s inputs.