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If India wants to spend its money well, it should build infrastructure that is climate resilient -Flavia Lopes

-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in

In the 2022 Budget, the Centre proposed to earmark Rs 1-lakh crore in interest-free loans for states, some of which will be used for developing infrastructure.

In May 2021, when Cyclone Yaas hit the eastern coast of India, a hospital in Bihar’s capital Patna was inundated in the floods and patients had nowhere to go. In September 2021, parts of the national capital, Delhi, were waterlogged because of heavy rains and residents in some areas had to wade through knee-deep water to commute.

These incidents lay bare the vulnerability of India’s critical infrastructure, including hospitals, roads, bridges and water treatment systems, to extreme weather events in a warming world. And as Budget 2022-’23 puts a renewed focus on infrastructure, experts say it must be ‘climate-proof’ and hazard-proof.

In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked “to nurture megacities and their hinterlands so that they become current centres of economic growth”. The government also proposed to earmark Rs 1-lakh crore in interest-free loans for states, some of which they would use for developing infrastructure and for town planning. The Budget also proposed expanding national highways by 25,000 km under the PM GatiShakti plan.

Climate proofing requires infrastructure to be designed, planned and built keeping in mind the environmental alterations that will take place due to climate change. For instance, building roads with wider drainage channels for flood-prone regions and/or laying roads on flatter slopes to avoid landslides.

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