The finance ministry has constituted a six-member task force to draw up a national infrastructure pipeline over the next five years. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had proposed in her July 5 Budget speech to form a high-level committee on the infrastructure. Basically, the government is trying to identify workable infrastructure projects, Greenfield as well as Brownfield, which have to be of a minimum size of Rs 100 crore. Here is what the structure of this task force will be.

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This task force is going to be headed by the Secretary DEA, Atanu Chakraborty.

* Among the other important members, CEO of NITI Aayog or his nominee will participate.

* Secretary expenditure department at the minister of finance Girish Chandra Murmu or his nominee will participate.

* There will be other representations from the administrative ministry and also further the representation from the finance ministry.

* It is going to be an annual pipeline and the government expects a report on the projects for FY20 to be out by October 31.

* The government is also expected to release a report on five-year project pipeline (FY21 to FY25) by December 31.

* National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) will also play an important role in trying to market these identified infra projects.