Government to soon come out with list of strategic sectors: Tarun Bajaj

22 Jul 2020 Evaluate

In line with the Rs 20-lakh crore Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan package announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj has said that the government will soon come out with a list of strategic sectors, and public sector companies in non-strategic sectors will be privatised. He said ‘this is a major announcement. I would say after 1956 when we decided to have public sector enterprises as our showpieces, this is the first time that any government has said that we will not have companies in the non-strategic sector in the public sector and in the strategic sectors also we will have less number of companies.’

Bajaj has stated that the government will soon decide on privatisation of six Indian airports, including those in Amritsar, Indore, Ranchi, Trichy, Bhubaneswar and Raipur. He noted that the government had started the process of privatisation of airports in November 2018, awarding three out of six airports to Adani Group, which had emerged as the highest bidder. These were airports of Ahmedabad, Mangalore and Lucknow. With regard to bond market, he said efforts are on to deepen it and steps have been taken to include bonds in global indices by opening up full access to foreign investors in select government securities. 

Talking about economy, he said there are signs of green shoots emerging in economic growth in June and July. He also said ‘if you look at electricity generation, total assessable value of state wise e-way bills or for that matter PMI data, all point to strong recovery.’ Besides, he said the government has put an emphasis on infrastructure development to push growth. To augment infrastructure and create jobs in the country, he said a government task force has projected total investment of Rs 111 lakh crore in infra projects over five years as per the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) for 2019-2025.  He added ‘the asset monetization in road, power, railways is also our priority and some efforts are on that side as well.’

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