New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- India's push to modernise its education system is creating a massive new opportunity for the real estate industry. A new report by ANAROCK Capital, titled "The Academic Real Estate Supercycle," reveals that the country needs a huge amount of new land and buildings to meet the goals of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

Specifically, the report finds that achieving these national targets will require an additional 2.7 billion square feet of academic built-up area.

This expansion is expected to take up nearly 30,000 acres of new campus land across the country, marking a major shift in how institutional land is used.

This scale of building represents a construction-led investment opportunity of approximately U...