The foundations agenda centres on infrastructure scale-up and financing innovation, with “public capex” showcased as rising from ₹2 lakh crore (FY15) to ₹12.2 lakh crore (FY27). It stresses mobilisation and recycling of assets (InVITs/REITs), expanding institutional financing vehicles, and de-risking private lending through partial credit guarantees.
Urbanisation is framed as building “City Economic Regions” that harness agglomeration benefits, with explicit focus on Tier II/Tier III cities and temple towns. A headline mobility intervention is the set of “Growth Connectors”: seven high-speed rail corridors designed as environmentally sustainable passenger systems linking key city pairs.
Explainer Table 1 — Infrastructure build-out and financing pipeline
| Initiative | What is proposed | What it enables |
| Public capex scale-up | ₹2 lakh crore (FY15) → ₹12.2 lakh crore (FY27) | Infrastructure acceleration at national scale |
| Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund | Partial credit guarantees to lenders | Better credit flow to projects |
| CPSE real estate recycling | Dedicated REITs to monetise assets | Capital recycling into fresh investment |
| Dedicated Freight Corridors | New corridor connecting Dankuni to Surat | Faster freight movement and industrial logistics |
| National Waterways | Operationalise 20 new waterways | Lower-cost freight and connectivity to ports/industrial centres |
| Inland waterways ship repair | Dedicated ecosystem | Reliability and local capability |
| Coastal Cargo Promotion | Raise share of inland/coastal shipping from 6% to 12% by 2047 | Modal shift and logistics efficiency |
| Seaplane VGF scheme | Viability gap funding + indigenised manufacturing | New mobility option + domestic manufacturing |
| State support | ₹2 lakh crore under SASCI scheme | State-level infra acceleration |
| Purvodaya | Integrated East Coast Industrial Corridor | Industrial clustering and corridor development |
Explainer Table 2 — Urbanisation and “Growth Connectors”
| Urbanisation lever | What is being prioritised | Examples stated |
| City economic regions | Unlock agglomeration economics | Tier II/Tier III cities and temple towns |
| High-speed rail corridors (“Growth Connectors”) | Sustainable passenger connectivity between growth nodes | Mumbai–Pune; Pune–Hyderabad; Hyderabad–Bengaluru; Hyderabad–Chennai; Chennai–Bengaluru; Delhi–Varanasi; Varanasi–Siliguri |