India’s infrastructure story, once a tale of ambition and acceleration, is now marred by collapses—literal and institutional. From the silencing of critics by the provision of smooth multilane highways and award-winning airport terminals in the early 2000s, we have now arrived at a point where headlines routinely scream of avoidable disasters: the Morbi bridge collapse, the cracks in the Mumbai Coastal Road, submerged tunnels in Silkyara, or crumbling expressways barely out of their ribbon-cutting ceremonies.Each episode is followed by silence: no naming, no accountability, no fixing of responsibility. And it’s not for want of resources. There are effective frameworks for this: InvITs, REITs, Municipal Bonds, an Infrastructure Credit rating scale, Public Private Partnerships, the India Infrastructure Finance Corporation, et al — the list is long.
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