India’s central government advances its massive infrastructure programme, with nearly half of the targeted investment amount allocated by June 2026, despite rising costs and project delays, supported by a new dynamic monitoring dashboard.
India’s central government is pressing ahead with a vast infrastructure build-out, with spending on 1,847 major projects reaching ₹21.97 lakh crore by June 2026, according to an official factsheet released on Monday. That is more than 54% of the total investment of ₹40.54 lakh crore planned for the mega projects, suggesting the programme is moving steadily through execution even as some schemes continue to face delays and rising costs.
The figures show that 709 projects have crossed 80% physical progress, while 337 have passed 80% of financial completion. MoSPI, the statistics ministry, keeps watch over these schemes through PAIMANA, a digital monitoring system for Central Sector projects costing ₹150 crore or more. The platform has also been broadened into a performance dashboard, launched in April 2026, to give officials a unified view of infrastructure trends across sectors.
According to reports by The Economic Times, Moneycontrol and NDTV Profit, the project pipeline has also absorbed a cumulative cost overrun of about ₹4.92 lakh crore, lifting the revised cost from the original ₹35.61 lakh crore to ₹40.54 lakh crore. Even so, the Transport and Logistics segment remains the largest by value, with 1,341 projects worth ₹22.32 lakh crore, underlining the government’s emphasis on connectivity and supply-chain capacity.
The monitoring framework now covers six sub-sectors: power, civil aviation, telecommunications, railways, roads and ports, shipping and waterways. The dashboard has been expanded to 165 indicators, with official data compiled from the relevant ministries and departments and updated periodically. MoSPI says the system supports interactive visualisation, time-series analysis and sector-by-sector tracking for policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders, with the aim of improving oversight and strengthening evidence-based decisions.
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