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On the 8th of November, Division member Uma S Kambhampati and her colleague Subham Kailthya published a piece in The Conversation<\/em> discussing the importance of developing a more efficient road system across India.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s highway network faces a number of challenges; roads are poorly maintained, lack connectivity, and are unequally distributed. Although both China and India have tripled the size of their road systems over the last two decades, the capacity of the former greatly outperforms the latter. Indeed, much of China\u2019s exponential economic development is attributed to its superior infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The article argues that investing in road infrastructure would act as a means of rapidly stimulating the country\u2019s economy with the authors\u2019 research demonstrating that a 1% increase in road density raises productivity by approximately 0.25%. However, the expansion of India\u2019s road network could significantly increase carbon emissions. With President Modi\u2019s recent pledge to carbon neutrality by 2070, \u00a0Kailthya and Kambhampati \u00a0conclude that ambitions for building a more extensive network must be balanced with investment in green innovations.<\/p>\n

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