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A linesman looks back over the rails he just inspected at a train station in New Delhi on July 31, 2012. India's worst power grid failure in more than a decade and a deadly train fire on Monday highlighted the crumbling infrastructure holding back Asia's third-largest economy, according to experts. "Infrastructure has always been the soft spot of the Indian economy -- there has not been enough investment, which has lowered the potential growth rate," Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist at Credit Agricole, told AFP.