Connectivity: Why the next leap depends on platforms, not just projects -- a RITES perspective

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- ✓Rahul Mithal, Chairman and Managing Director of RITES, said that India’s infrastructure growth now depends on linking information systems.
- ✓In 2026, the focus shifted from building individual projects to creating platforms that multiply connectivity.
- ✓He noted, "Integration is not just about connecting roads to railways or ports to freight corridors."
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Integration is not just about connecting roads to railways or ports to freight corridors; it is also about linking the information systems that enable these networks to function, writes Rahul Mithal, Chairman and Managing Director, RITES.
For years, India's infrastructure story was told in the language of projects: a highway here, a freight corridor there, a logistics park somewhere else. In 2026, the story may no longer be just about what we are building, but how what is built is being connected, not only projects that add capacity, but platforms that multiply connectivity. And that changes the infrastructure challenge itself.
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