Construction Sector: Current Scenario and Emerging Trends

After recording a spectacular growth of over 12%, more than the country’s GDP in the past half decade, the Indian construction sector all of a sudden lost stream in last fiscal largely due to global financial turmoil. Not just this, the turmoil tremors created multiplier impact across sectors including steel, cement, power, petroleum, aluminum, IT and ports, besides badly Bruising the Indian economy.

But few sectors such as telecom, urban infrastructure, railways, oil and gas, which are also generating large share of construction activities have not been affected badly. These segments have registered a noticeable growth in project orders from centre, states, and local firms. However, orders from overseas firms have drastically dwindled.