The investment deficit in the healthcare sector could be bridged through public private partnership (PPP) among other measures, a senior Planning Commission official said on Tuesday.
The Union finance ministry has endorsed the views of Gajendra Haldea, infrastructure advisor to the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, who had objected to recent changes in bidding norms by the National Highways Authority of India.
His outburst has to rank among the most bizarre episodes of two arms of the government fighting in public.
Haldea's report requires serious rethinking of the NHAI model, not an outburst by Kamal Nath.
The Planning Commission has projected that investment in infrastructure would almost double at $1025 billion in the 12th Plan, compared to $514 billion in the 11th Plan.
The government is going to handover a lion's share of its road projects that runs into an order of Rs 1,50,000 crore (Rs 1500 billion) investment to private players by 2012. \n
The foundation stone laying ceremony for the proposed new headquarters of Delhi Police was marred by a controversy when Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, the chief guest of the event, skipped the function citing inadequency in the documentation of the project.
Road developers hoping for early relief from the government will have to wait longer.
The pre-dawn signals are on the balance negative.
From Kudankulam to the Land Bill, the author takes the Twitter route to capture the infra action of 2013.
