Partnership lessons | The Indian Express

Partnership lessons | The Indian Express

Written by TV Somanathan, Gulzar Natarajan |Updated: July 30, 2019 12:45:03 am

The writers is an IAS officer. Views are personal

The writer is an IAS officer, batch of 1999, and a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School, US. Views are personal

Partnership lessons

On public private partnerships, India must learn from UK. Be realistic, not ideological.

The starting point in India may often be a public agency which is inefficient, corrupt at the point of contact with the citizen and providing very poor service.

As India deepens private participation in infrastructure through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), it is an opportune moment to explore the lessons from the UK, the pioneer in the use of PPPs and privatisation in infrastructure.