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title: "National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP): India's Plan"
description: "The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is India's ₹111 lakh crore investment plan for infrastructure projects from 2020 to 2025."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The National Infrastructure Pipeline is India's coordinated investment plan, launched in 2019, to channel roughly ₹111 lakh crore into infrastructure projects between fiscal years 2020 and 2025.
- How is the National Infrastructure Pipeline funded?
- How does the NIP differ from the National Monetisation Pipeline?
- Which sectors dominate the NIP outlay?
- What is the relationship between the NIP and PM Gati Shakti?

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The National Infrastructure Pipeline is India's coordinated investment plan, launched in 2019, to channel roughly ₹111 lakh crore into infrastructure projects between fiscal years 2020 and 2025.

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## Timeline

1. 5 July 2019

   The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) originated in the Union Budget speech of , when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that India would inv…

2. 7 September 2019

   To operationalise the commitment, the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance constituted a Task Force on under the chairmanship of the Ec…

3. 29 April 2020

   The Task Force submitted its final report on , by which point the pipeline had expanded to approximately ₹111 lakh crore covering the period FY2020 through F…

4. 13 October 2021

   The FY2023-24 Budget raised central capital outlay to ₹10 lakh crore, and the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan, launched on , was positioned as the digita…

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In its April 2020 final report, the Department of Economic Affairs Task Force chaired by the Economic Affairs Secretary expanded the National Infrastructure Pipeline to roughly ₹111 lakh crore covering FY2020 to FY2025.

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