New Delhi, May 27 -- India's investment pipeline has hit a significant milestone. The project stalling rate, measured as the value of stalled projects as a share of the total value of projects under implementation, declined to a 12-year low of 5.5% in FY26, down from nearly 11% in 2014-15.

While this has been gradually declining for the past six years, data from the project-tracking database of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) reveals that this execution cleanup was driven by the private sector. The project-stalling rate for private players plunged by nearly 700 basis points over the decade. In comparison, public sector stalling rates saw a more modest, though steady, decline from 5.9% to 2.5% during the same period.

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