The study explores influencing fac tors and formulating relation that efficient infra structure leads to ease in doing business and in creases employment opportunities, hence leads to overall development in national economics. Our findings using OLS linear regression (R2 =85%) were strongly corroborated using case studies and examples of golden quadrilaterals were estimated 15 to 19 percent of the total growth of India's or ganized manufacturing output for the analysis pe riod. Implies that the growth in the national econ omy is directly proportional to developed infra structure. But the case study of Morbi and chal lenges posed such as regional disparities, funding gaps, and policy differences challenges the origi nal hypothesis. Presenting a different opinion that the relation between infrastructure and economy can be dynamic. The study articulates the differ ent aspects and correlating evidences between re gional economics and development in infrastruc ture that shows infrastructure spending contrib utes to economic growth only when supported by robust governance, adequate maintenance, safety compliance, and transparent systems. The out comes of Golden Quadrilateral project and Morbi bridge collapse showcases how governances’ shapes effectiveness of infrastructure invest ments.
Parwani et al. (Wed,) studied this question.