Centre to infuse Rs 20,000 cr in Development Finance Institution to boost infrastructure funding
Team Udayavani, Mar 16, 2021, 4:25 PM IST
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a Bill to set up a Development Finance Institution (DFI) to generate funds for investment in the infrastructure sector.
The proposed legislation will give effect to the Budget announcement made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. The government has proposed Rs 20,000 crore to capitalise the institution.
“The Cabinet has cleared this Bill, through which we will have an institution and institutional arrangement, which will help in increasing long term funds,” she said after the meeting of the Cabinet.
The proposed DFI will have 50 per cent non-official directors, Sitharaman added.
In her Budget 2019-20 speech, Sitharaman had proposed a study for setting up DFIs for promoting infrastructure funding. About 7,000 projects have been identified under the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) with a projected investment of a whopping Rs 111 lakh crore during 2020-25.
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