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Mega Infrastructure — 2026 Tracker

India's public-works map keeps being redrawn across 2025 and 2026. The Kashmir Valley has joined the national rail grid over the world's highest railway bridge, a Gujarat plant now ships the first made-in-India memory chips, and mid-July 2026 brought 75 redeveloped Amrit Bharat stations. August 2026 turned to how the finished network performs and how it is guarded and paid for: both dedicated freight corridors are running, roughly 19,700 km of track carries trespass fencing, RailOne has passed 4.76 crore downloads, and highway contracts have been rewritten to draw in private money. Late August added a clearance wave — four railway multitracking lines worth ₹9,450 crore, four-lane highways in Bihar and Assam, and the 53rd PRAGATI review of ₹30,000 crore of projects. This tracker states each project's status precisely, because a tunnel breakthrough is a very different thing from a tunnel that has opened.

Last updated 27 August 202614 min read

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Adds the August 2026 clearance wave. The CCEA approved four railway multitracking projects on 19 August — about 410 km for ₹9,450 crore across eight districts of Odisha, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, due by 2030-31 — and the four-laning of NH-22 from Muzaffarpur through Sitamarhi to the Nepal border at Sonbarsa in Bihar (82.578 km, ₹3,590.73 crore, Hybrid Annuity Mode). Also records the 6 August approval of the 135.87 km Guwahati-Tezpur corridor on NH-15 in Assam (₹8,970.20 crore, BOT toll, with a 4.9 km Air Force emergency landing strip) and the 53rd PRAGATI meeting of 25 August, where the PM reviewed six rail, road and power projects across nine states worth over ₹30,000 crore and asked for projects to be tracked as an integrated whole. The stat strip now shows the month's CCEA total of ₹22,011 crore.

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Chenab Bridge
Zojila Tunnel
Noida Airport Jewar
Micron Sanand
Brahmaputra Tunnel
hydrogen train
railway electrification

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