Inflation Rate in India averaged 8.14 percent from 2012 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 11.16 percent in November of 2013 and a record low of 3.66 percent in August of 2015.
Dugout costs will vary according to each site and its soil and moisture properties. The average cost for excavating, landscaping, and installing inlet control on a dugout of 50m x 20m x 5m deep (with a capacity of 2 million litres) is $4,000 to $7,000.
All told, the United States would shell out some $375 million to build the canal, which included a $10 million payment to Panama as a condition of the 1903 treaty, and $40 million to buy the French assets.