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c) Rebalancing and Capacity

India’s transport networks are severely constrained for capacity. Railways in particular, despite being a more reliable and energy efficient mode, have been losing out to roads for the want of capacity augmentation at various fronts. Increased funding has not translated

into commensurate increases in the capacity of physical infrastructure, essentially due to greater investment focus on new and sometimes unhelpful infrastructure creation rather than on capacity augmentation.