Infrastructure services need to be priced
"There are no free lunches," said Planning Commission member (and former finance secretary) Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the refrain echoed all through the three-hour-long plenary session of the conference on

Privatisation plan for power transmission in the offing
The ministry of power is working out a comprehensive privatisation plan for the transmission sector. Move is afoot to figure out which lines can be given out for building to the private sector, according to power secretary VK Pandit.

Centre can't go it alone -- Dattratreya
Union minister of state for urban affairs Bandaru Dattratreya, who stood in for Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday to open the conference on `Private sector participation in Indian infrastructure'.


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