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Building infrastructure requires huge investments and one of the effective ways of addressing this insurmountable obstacle is to unlock urban land values for infrastructure finance.
This is what experts contended at a day-long deliberation, jointly organized by the Ministry of Urban Development, Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation, India Urban Space Foundation and National Institute of Urban Affairs in collaboration with Wolfensohn Centre for Development at Brookings.
Participants from different countries highlighted the unresolved paradox in that for most large infrastructure projects — those related to transportation and communications — infrastructure investments push the value of urban land more than the cost of the project.
If land-value gains so accrued exceed project costs, why has it been so difficult to ramp up infrastructure financing? Hence, the policy question to find a proper way out to capture part of the gain in land-values for urban infrastructure finance through land-based financing.