New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- The government has laid a special focus on infrastructure -- physical, digital and social -- in the last five years and those efforts would need to be supplemented with wholehearted acceptance of the need for public-private partnerships in infrastructure across the country, the Economic Survey 2024-25 said on Friday.

Tabled in the Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the Survey said equally important is that "the private sector must reciprocate, too". "India's development aspirations require a substantial investment in infrastructure over the next decade. While estimates of the required spending differ in scale, there is general agreement that current infrastructure spending needs to be increased to ac...