‘Policy deployment is the key to quick project implementation’

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: ministry of civil aviation and the Planning Commission to raise the importance of excellence in project management. We will show them the best practices that can be used to manage infrastructure projects in India.

What would be your focus areas in India?

Ministries and construction firms would be our number one focus. Our second focus area would be pharmaceuticals, which is one of the most rapidly growing areas in India. Thirdly, we will focus on continuing support to the IT sector. The sector is an ideal example of how projects should be done. We will also focus on the automobile sector, which is expanding rapidly, and finally aerospace, which is a critical link in the global supply chain. These five areas are crucial to us.

Why do infrastructure projects in India get delayed indefinitely?

There is the difference between policy formulation and deployment. There is a strong willingness to create aspirational goals in India. The five-year plan is an example. One of such goals in the current five-year plan is to provide about higher education to 15% of the country’s population by the end of 2015 . Now, policy deployment says we need 1,500 universities by that time. The question is: Is the country prepared to invest in those 1,500 universities? If not, then it is merely an aspirational goal. Similarly, the current plan projects the need for 78,000 megawatts of additional power into the grid in three years. But the projection at the best is that it would be 25,000 megawatts. You can blame it on insufficient gas supply or poor gas turbine or collapse of Enron, but those are risks associated with projects.

So, what should India do to speed up project implementation?

For India to really succeed, it has to talk about quick policy deployment all the time. So the key is policy deployment and not the fanfare of a five year plan. The ability to implement the plan makes all the difference. And that’s what the government needs to focus on. They need global standards to deploy projects, they need to hire people who are capable to manage projects efficiently and they need to integrate the projects.

What is the role of the private sector in implementing projects?