Karnataka is looking to revive public-private partnership in the infrastructure sector by operationalising a policy that has been dormant for two years.
In March 2018, the government rejigged its PPP policy for infrastructure projects, increasing the single-window sanction limit to Rs 500 crore from Rs 50 crore. It also prescribes interventions to ensure better implementation of projects.
Under this policy, the government has now constituted a PPP committee in every district. In effect, these committees will iron out procedural hassles that PPP projects are likely to face at the local level.
“The 2018 policy hadn’t been operationalised. Also, the Atmanirbhar package of the Centre mostly envisages PPP. So, we wanted to give it a renewed push,” Infrastructure Development principal secretary Kapil Mohan told DH.
