<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root available-locales="en_US," default-locale="en_US"><static-content language-id="en_US"><![CDATA[<p>India may miss a $500 billion target for infrastructure investment for the five years through 2012, but will likely create at least two $10 billion debt funds for the sector in the next few months, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of Planning Commission, said on Thursday.<br><br>Creaky infrastructure has been blamed as one of the drags on the growth prospects of Asia's third-largest economy, which policymakers expect to grow between 8 and 8.5 per cent for the current fiscal that ends in March.<br><br>"We think our investment will probably be little short of the $500 billion target," Ahluwalia said at a conference about meeting fast-growing India's needs for roads, ports, power and railways.<br><br>"I would not be surprised if it is 10 per cent or even 12 per cent short," he said.<br><br>Ahluwalia also stressed the need for more infrastructure debt funds, the guidelines for which will be released soon.<br><br>"We need several 10 billion dollar funds. I expect at least two ($10 billion funds) to start off (in the current fiscal year)," Ahluwalia said.<br><br>Over the next five years ending March 2017, India plans to invest $1 trillion in building infrastructure.<br><br>(Reuters)</p>