Month-on-month revenue since October better than FY20: L&T IDPL's Pathak

The good news is that since October 2020, revenues for FY2021 month-on-month are much better compared to FY2020, said CEO Pathak

Shailesh Pathak, chief executive officer (CEO) of L&T Infrastructure Development Projects (L&T IDPL), has — since his early days as an IAS officer — written extensively on the need for the government to build projects and for the private sector to run them in order to get India’s infra built. In an interview to Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, he speaks about proposals in the FY22 Budget, which brought several of those on board. Edited excerpts:

How differently has the year 2020-21 turned out for the infra sector companies such as yours?

Obviously, March-August 2020 was a very uncertain period in the pandemic lockdown. However,