India’s National Capital Region (NCR), covering the National Capital Territory of Delhi and parts of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, is one of the world’s largest urban agglomerations. In 2011, it had a population of 46 million, which was projected to increase to 64 million by 2021.
Inadequate road connectivity has been an obstacle to economic growth in rural India. To address the issue, the government launched the Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Program (PMGSY) in 2000. PMGSY is expected to upgrade about 738,000 kilometers (km) of rural roads to an all-weather standard at a total estimated cost of about $30 billion.
At the request of the Government of India (GOI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved in March 2006 a 4-tranche, $300 million multitranche financing facility (MFF) to help implement the Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program (UPSIP). The UPSIP aimed to meet the priority infrastructure requirements identified in Uttarakhand’s roadmap for state energy sector development.
Uttarakhand, in the northern part of India, is one the country’s poorest states. It was created in November 2000 from a split in the state of Uttar Pradesh. At around 2008, its annual per capita electricity consumption was less than half the national average, and economic development was constrained by lack of power supply.
During project appraisal in 2008, Odisha (formerly Orissa), in northeastern India, was one of the poorest states in the country. Agriculture employed 60% of its available labor and generated one-third of its gross domestic product.
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