Pitching for urgent reforms in policy and regulatory areas, global analytical company - CRISIL, with the government setting $1-trillion investment target for the infrastructure sector for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), has asked the government to ensure that benefits of the progress achieved reach the bottom of the pyramid.
CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory president Sameer Bhatia said ‘infrastructure segments like power, road and ports have significantly evolved over the years mainly due to reforms, private sector interest and strong investment flows. Now, they are at a point which calls for the next level of initiatives to reap the fruits of the first wave of reforms and policy initiatives’.
By adding further, he said that the first wave was oriented towards sharing responsibility with the private sector in developing infrastructure, while, the second wave has to be oriented towards ensuring that the desired benefits are available to the man on the street in an efficient manner.
Regarding the power sector development, Bhatia said, regulations led to implementation of key reforms like unbundling of utilities, de-licensing in generation leading to development of a competitive power market. Now, the sector requires next genre of reforms in terms of realisation of open access to provide end-consumers the option of choosing suppliers, technology transformation and upgrade in transmission and distribution, as well as more private sector participation in distribution, he added.
Referring to the port sector, he said that over the past decade, policy orientation was towards creating capacity and promoting private sector investment. Now the sector needs structural re-orientation to implement reforms like development of port-linked evacuation corridors, corporatization of ports and maritime city development.
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