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The Indian cement industry is on track to reach 5.09 billion tonnes by 2028-29, driven by robust government investment in infrastructure. According to an IANS report originally attributed to Infomerics Ratings, this marks a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.9 per cent between 2024 and 2029. In 2022-23, the industry’s market size stood at 3.82 billion tonnes, with a total installed capacity of 622 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) in FY24 and production at 427 million tonnes. Notably, India contributes over 8 per cent to the world’s total installed cement capacity, highlighting its importance in the global market. Despite this, India’s per capita cement consumption is 260 kg—significantly below the global average of 540 kg—indicating substantial room for growth. Globally, the cement market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.3 per cent from 2024 to 2032. The sector’s expansion is fuelled by ambitious government initiatives, including an allocation of ₹11.11 lakh crore for infrastructure in FY25 and housing schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. The construction sector consumes 55 per cent of cement production, while public infrastructure projects account for the remainder. The industry also plays a critical role in employment, providing direct jobs to over one million people and creating downstream opportunities for about 20,000 individuals per million tonnes of cement produced. Private players dominate the sector, controlling 98 per cent of production capacity, while public sector units hold a mere 2 per cent. Domestic production meets almost all demand, with imports accounting for just 0.2 per cent of total production in FY23. However, exports have declined recently due to reduced global demand and rising competition. India currently has 341 cement manufacturing facilities, including 159 integrated large cement plants, 120 grinding units, and 62 mini cement plants. Cement production has seen steady growth, with a 7.1 per cent increase in September 2024 and a cumulative growth of 1.6 per cent between April and September of FY25, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This growth aligns with India’s overall industrial performance, which saw a 2 per cent rise in core industries in September, led by cement, steel, coal, and fertilisers. As India invests heavily in infrastructure and housing, the cement industry is set to play a pivotal role in supporting the nation’s economic and developmental goals. (with IANS inputs)

India's cement industry expected to grow to 5.09 billion tonnes by 2028-29 amid infrastructure push: Report

<ul><li>The <keyword id="20613906" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Economic-Survey" source="keywords">Economic Survey</keyword> 2023-24 was tabled by the <keyword id="19956758" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Finance-Minister" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Finance Minister" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Finance Minister">Finance Minister</keyword> in the Lok Sabha.</li><li>The report was tabled a day before FM Nirmala Sitharaman is slated to present the budget.</li><li>The report has highlighted the need for private investments in infrastructure.</li></ul>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday tabled the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/budget-2024-live-news-top-things-every-indian-should-know-about-the-economic-survey-2023-24/articleshow/111918064.cms">Economic Survey</a> 2023-2024 in the Lok Sabha, a day ahead of the Budget being tabled. According to the report, India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 8.2% in FY24. The report has revealed that large-scale infrastructure projects in the country have largely been funded by <keyword id="22504538" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="public-sector-investment" source="keywords">public sector investment</keyword> in recent years. The government has highlighted a need for private sector investment in infrastructure building. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="111923191" title="Economic Survey 2024 – industries grow by 9.5%, fueling economic growth to 8.2%" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> In the five years between 2019 and 2023, the central and state Governments contributed 49% and 29% of the total investments in infrastructure, while, the private sector's contribution was just 22%. “There is significant scope for boosting India’s <keyword id="20018651" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="private-investment" source="keywords">private investment</keyword>, especially in the context of investment requirements facing the Indian economy in the areas of infrastructure, green transition, etc,” as per the Economic Survey 2024. <h2>National highways triple, railways receive a boost</h2>In the last decade, the pace of construction of national highways has reportedly tripled. According to the Economic Survey 2024, the pace of construction of national highways has increased from 11.7 km per day in FY14 to around 34 km per day by FY24. The capital expenditure in railways has increased by 77% in the last five years, with significant investments directed at the construction of new lines, gauge conversion and doubling. The passenger handling capacity at airports in the country has increased by 62 million passengers per annum in FY24 with new terminal buildings being opened at 21 airports. There is now a need to add more airports and expand the existing airports. The clean energy sector in India saw new investment of ₹8.5 lakh crore between 2014 and 2023. <h2>Metro and rapid train connectivity to soon double</h2>At present, 945 km of metro rail or RRTS lines are operational, out of which 86 km was added in FY24. This is set to soon double as 993 km of metro and RRTS lines are under construction in 27 cities across the country. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/budget-2024-live-news-top-things-every-indian-should-know-about-the-economic-survey-2023-24/articleshow/111918064.cms">Economic Survey highlights: Top 10 things every Indian should know from the Economic Survey 2023-24</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/economic-survey-2024-industries-grow-by-9-5-fueling-economic-growth-to-8-2/articleshow/111923191.cms">Economic Survey 2024 – industries grow by 9.5%, fueling economic growth to 8.2%</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/article/economic-survey-2023-2024-highlights-emerging-job-trends-in-ai-cybersecurity-3d-printing-and-web-development/articleshow/111923746.cms">Economic Survey 2023-2024 highlights emerging job trends in AI, Cybersecurity, 3D Printing and Web Development</a>

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The <keyword id="19900449" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="government" source="keywords">government</keyword> will provide Rs 11.11 lakh crore towards <keyword id="19951996" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="capex" source="keywords">capex</keyword> for 2024-25, <keyword id="19956758" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="finance-minister" source="keywords">Finance Minister</keyword> Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. Presenting Union Budget for FY25, she stated that the government is aiming to maintain strong fiscal support for <keyword id="19936648" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="infrastructure-projects" source="keywords">infrastructure projects</keyword> for the next five years. Sitharaman also noted that the government will facilitate <keyword id="20138649" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="investment-grade" source="keywords">investment grade</keyword> energy audit of micro and small industries in 60 clusters. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/union-budget-2024-live-updates-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-key-announcements-23-july/liveblog/111942008.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Budget 2024 Live Updates: FM Sitharaman announces internships for 1 crore youth in 500 top companies</a> Besides, the government will take up setting up of power projects, including a 2,400 MW power plant at Pirpainti in Bihar at a cost of Rs 21,400 crore. SEE ALSO:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/union-budget-2024-live-updates-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-key-announcements-23-july/liveblog/111942008.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/union-budget-2024-live-updates-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-key-announcements-23-july/liveblog/111942008.cms" target="_blank">Union Budget 2024 Live Updates: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present her record seventh consecutive Budget today</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/expectations-from-union-budget-2024-25-how-will-this-budget-impact-you/articleshow/111946291.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/expectations-from-union-budget-2024-25-how-will-this-budget-impact-you/articleshow/111946291.cms" target="_blank">Union Budget 2024-25: How will this budget impact you?</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/heres-a-quick-overview-of-pm-modi-3-0-governments-first-budget-to-be-presented-by-fm-nirmala-sitharaman-today/articleshow/111944393.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/heres-a-quick-overview-of-pm-modi-3-0-governments-first-budget-to-be-presented-by-fm-nirmala-sitharaman-today/articleshow/111944393.cms" target="_blank">Here's a quick overview of PM Modi 3.0 government's first budget, to be presented by FM Nirmala Sitharaman today</a>

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The Reserve Bank's FI, or <keyword id="20377974" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="financial-inclusion" source="keywords">financial inclusion</keyword> index, which captures the extent of financial inclusion across the country, rose to 64.2 in March 2024, marking growth across all parameters. The index captures information on various aspects of financial inclusion in a single value ranging between 0 and 100, where 0 represents complete financial exclusion and 100 indicates full financial inclusion. "The value of the index for March 2024 stands at 64.2 vis-a-vis 60.1 in March 2023, with growth witnessed across all sub-indices," the Reserve Bank of India (<keyword id="19899808" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="RBI" source="keywords">RBI</keyword>) said in a statement today. During FY23, the FI Index stood at 60.1. Improvement in <keyword id="18794777" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="FI-Index" source="Orion">FI-Index</keyword> is mainly contributed by usage dimension, which further reflects deepening of financial inclusion, it added. The FI-Index comprises three broad parameters -access, which has a 35% weightage, usage, which has a 45% weight and quality, which has a 20% weight. Each of these parameters further consist of various dimensions, which are computed based on a total of 97 indicators. Breaking these parameters ahead, access is made up of 26 indicators, which capture the number of banking outlets NBFCs, and post offices, total number of <keyword id="25450" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="savings" source="Orion">savings</keyword> accounts (including small savings), <keyword id="22348444" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="electronic-payment-infrastructure" source="Orion">electronic payment infrastructure</keyword> and more. Usage comprises 52 indicators, which aims to capture the demand side, and is essentially a barometer for understanding how actively financial infrastructure is being utilized in our country by way of savings, <keyword id="6355120" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="investment" source="Orion">investment</keyword>, <keyword id="35450" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="insurance" source="Orion">insurance</keyword>, availing of credit and remittance facilities, etc. And lastly, quality, which consists of 19 indicators, takes into account the efficacy of existing grievance redressal mechanisms and awareness efforts undertaken by stakeholders and more. In August 2021, the central bank said FI-Index has been conceptualized as a comprehensive index, incorporating details of banking, investments, insurance, postal, as well as the pension sector, in consultation with government and respective sectoral regulators. The index is responsive to ease of access, availability and usage of services, and quality of services. According to RBI, a unique feature of the index is the quality parameter which captures the quality aspect of financial inclusion as reflected by financial literacy, consumer protection and inequalities and deficiencies in services. <h2> India added 4.7 crore jobs in 2023-24, says RBI</h2>In another significant data release during the day, the apex bank of the country noted that India added nearly 4.7 crore jobs during 2023-24, taking the total number of employed people to 64.33 crore, which are spread over 27 sectors covering the entire economy. The number of employed people was 59.67 crore at the end of March 2023, as per the RBI's update on 'Measuring Productivity at the Industry Level-The India KLEMS [Capital (K), Labour (L), Energy (E), Material (M) and Services (S)] Database'. The bank said the annual growth in employment during 2023-24 was 6% compared to 3.2% in the year-ago period. In the last five years, <keyword id="22348445" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-India-KLEMS" source="Orion">the India KLEMS</keyword> database revealed that total employment increased from 53.44 crore in 2019-20 to 64.33 crore during the previous fiscal. The data for financial 2022-23 is a provisional estimate of productivity for the total economy. The 'agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing' employed 25.3 crore individuals, up from 24.82 crore in 2021-22, the fiscal 2022-23 data suggested. Construction, trade, and transport and storage were among the leading employment provider segments in 2022-23. Notably, for the purpose of this database, 27 industries are clubbed together to form 6 major sectors, namely <ul><li>Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry and Fishing</li><li>Mining and Quarrying</li><li>Manufacturing</li><li>Electricity, Gas and Water supply</li><li>Construction</li><li>Services</li></ul>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>America is ready to scale up its AI infrastructure.</li><li>The generative AI boom has put data center capacity and energy constraints into focus.</li></ul>America is stepping up plans to maintain an edge in the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-using-ai-bain-survey-roi-2024-6">generative AI race</a>.A key part of that strategy is making significant investments in domestic infrastructure — from data centers to chip production — so that it is less reliant on countries such as Taiwan, where tensions with neighboring China loom large.On Tuesday, <a target="_blank" href="https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/17/blackrock-global-infrastructure-partners-microsoft-and-mgx-launch-new-ai-partnership-to-invest-in-data-centers-and-supporting-power-infrastructure/">Microsoft and BlackRock announced the creation of a $30 billion mega-fund</a> designed to "enhance American competitiveness in AI." Its backers have committed to driving the "significant infrastructure investment" needed to make AI more powerful.Critically, the firms behind the fund said these infrastructure investments "will be chiefly in the United States," where it plans to fuel AI innovation and economic growth.It means the fund — which involves the Global Infrastructure Partners unit BlackRock acquired in January and Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX — will "make investments in new and expanded data centers." It will also fund the energy infrastructure needed to power them.According to the fund's backers, other investments will be directed to "US partner countries." With debt financing, the fund's overall size could reach $100 billion. "The capital spending needed for AI infrastructure and the new energy to power it goes beyond what any single company or government can finance," said <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-brad-smith-tiktok-trump-washington-dc-2020-8">Microsoft president Brad Smith.</a><div type="image" title="microsoft brad smith" height="2426" width="3500" msid="113466371" hostid="261" sizebytes="243638"></div>If America is serious about leading on AI — something the next president will <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-xi-jinping-ai-wreak-havoc-america-world-economy-2024-6">inevitably contend with as China ramps up its efforts</a> — it has little choice but to future-proof the technology by building more critical infrastructure.Data centers, chip manufacturing plants, and energy supply are all vital for making AI tick. But each of these domains is subject to potential pitfalls — be it supply chain vulnerabilities or demand bottlenecks.The US got the ball rolling on supporting its self-sufficiency with semiconductors — the hardware developed by the likes of Nvidia to provide computing power for large language models — with the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/09/fact-sheet-chips-and-science-act-will-lower-costs-create-jobs-strengthen-supply-chains-and-counter-china/">CHIPS Act, passed by Congress in 2022.</a>While <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-taiwan-tsmc-jensen-huang-china-disruption-2024-9">Nvidia</a> and other US tech firms have led the chip space by focusing on design, manufacturing has largely been outsourced to Taiwanese firm TSMC. Given rising fears over a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-seal-team-six-preparing-china-invasion-of-taiwan-report-2024-9">possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan</a>, there are concerns about supply chain security.<div type="image" title="Jensen Huang wih Nvidia hardware" height="2121" width="3000" msid="113466372" hostid="261" sizebytes="174302"></div>Not all is steady on the data center and energy front, either.A June report on global data center trends <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/global-data-center-trends-2024">published by commercial real estate group CBRE</a> found that "worldwide power shortage is significantly inhibiting the global data center market's growth." Lack of growth has been a key problem in the US, where the AI boom has led to data center vacancy rates dropping everywhere from Chicago to Northern Virginia.That means data centers are in short supply, or, as the CBRE noted, "North American data center availability keeps tightening due to robust demand," leading parts of the country's tech industry to consider drastic measures. As the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ft.com/content/d2bbcdc9-7282-43ea-84f7-250aab6a8a43">Financial Times reported last month</a>, some Big Tech firms and their suppliers have even considered turning decommissioned power stations into data centers.This supply shortage hasn't gone unnoticed in Washington. Last week, the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/12/readout-of-white-house-roundtable-on-u-s-leadership-in-ai-infrastructure/">White House held a roundtable with top AI leaders</a> from around the country to "discuss steps to ensure the United States continues to lead the world in AI" by focusing on the data center and energy issue.With the likes of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-nvidia-routine-management-leadership-style-ceo-founder-2024-4">Nvidia's Jensen Huang</a> and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-raising-money-strawberry-after-rough-start-year-2024-9">OpenAI's Sam Altman</a> at the table, alongside top government officials such as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the discussion on American leadership in AI was tied to "national security, economic, and environmental goals."The headline result was the launch of a new task force on AI data center infrastructure, designed to underscore the vital importance of building out the infrastructure needed to maintain momentum in the generative AI race.This may all be better late than never for the US. While the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-return-investment-disappointing-goldman-sachs-report-2024-6">verdict is still out</a> on the potential for the current AI boom to generate returns in the long run, it's clear that AI will be a critical geopolitical issue for the US in the years ahead.More infrastructure on home soil will help the US have greater control over its own destiny.

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