PAIMANA update expands infrastructure dashboard to 184 indicators

What changed in the dashboard

The update adds 21 indicators to a platform launched in April 2026. It covers aviation, roads, power, ports and waterways, telecommunications, and railways.

The framework considers access, quality, fiscal cost and revenue, utilisation, and affordability. Tracking those dimensions together gives users more information than a single headline about infrastructure spending.

Read the dates with the numbers

National highway projects awarded reached 2,236.3 kilometres in April–September 2026, up 62.9% from a year earlier. Air cargo handled reached 18.6 lakh tonnes in April–August, a 12% increase.

These measurements concern different periods and activities. A contract award describes work entering a pipeline; cargo handled describes actual movement. Neither should be relabelled as road construction completed during the quarter. The Policy Edge’s independent summary highlights that distinction.

How to use the release

The ministry links a public dashboard at paimana-perf.mospi.gov.in. A useful comparison keeps the indicator definition, reference period and unit together, then follows the same series over time.

For example, a later increase in completed roads would answer a different question from this release’s increase in awards. Similarly, installed electricity capacity and electricity produced should be read as separate measures. The dashboard’s breadth helps readers ask those more precise questions.

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