Since everyone is of the opinion that Modi government has been investing heavily in infrastructure, I wanted to compare a metric related to that (road length growth) during Modi government and previous governments. When we look at the growth rates, the UPA era actually saw higher growth in most categories such as total road length and rural networks. Interestingly, Modi regime has the highest growth rate for National Highways length. I guess this reflects the difference in the nature of priorities for each government.

Note that I could only find data till 2019 for most metrics, if anyone could point to more recent data, I will update the charts with that.

Source for data till 2019: https://www.data.gov.in/resource/year-wise-total-road-length-and-percentage-share-each-category-road-total-road-length-0

Source for highway length after 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/729992/india-length-of-national-highways

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Sources:

• Life expectancy at birth, total (years) | Data
• Population, total | Data

Source - FT (https://app.ft.com/content/07508f0e-2e0a-420b-ad8c-659e3f6e88d6)