Govt likely to set-up independent regulators to promote PPP projects

30 Apr 2013 Evaluate

To promote the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in sectors like coal, road and rail, the government has made a strong case for setting up independent regulatory authorities to meet all the challenges that the sectors are facing. While addressing an event, Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram said, 'the regulatory authorities have to be empowered and they have to be given enough authority to be able them to deal with the issues which are arising on the regulatory side.'

By adding further, Mayaram said that there is a need to re-look at the existing regulatory authority and ways to further empower them. The independent regulatory authorities to be able to look at specific sector related problems must be independent of the government and other party, he added.

Regarding the problems being faced by PPP projects, he said that the government cannot bailout projects which fail due to commercial reasons and it can step in if the failures are on account of regulatory hurdles. Therefore, the distinction between the two kinds of failures is necessary.

Further, in order to bring in adequate resources for setting up of a sound and efficient infrastructural base, the government has entered into the 'Public Private Partnership (PPP)' programme. For the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), the government has set the $1-trillion investment target for the infrastructure sector.  

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