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Infrastructure Asset Recycling With Public Trust
A healthy template for government-owned assets to be exposed to the fresh air of private investment and public scrutiny.
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The cooling tower of a power plant stands behind an electrical grid in Patna. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
While writing the last instalment of this column, on the Chandigarh discom privatisation, it occurred to me that we seem to be in the early stages of a growing wave of operating infrastructure assets being transferred out of government control to the private sector. This is happening in a number of different ways.
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