India's infrastructure performance in 2014-15 was better than the previous fiscal, as production of inputs including power, steel, coal and cement moved up.Other areas that showed improvement are fertiliser, refinery, goods traffic carried by railways, cargo handled at major sea ports, airports and net addition in telephone switching capacity, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) said.In addition, new cellphone connections were also higher than the achievement in 2013-14, it added.
Overall power generation during April-March (2014-15) at over 1110 Billion units (BU) was 8.85 per cent higher than the power generation during the corresponding period of the previous year, it said.Production of power–thermal (878.32 BU), nuclear (36.10 BU), hydro (129.24 BU), and renewable (61.78 BU) were all higher than the targets set for the year.