The Centre should concentrate its resources on the planning phase of large infrastructure projects; their implementation onus is on private-sector players. Speaking to Business Standard, Kshitish Nadgauda, senior vice-president and managing director-Asia, Louis Berger, said, “The government needs to be involved in the planning of dedicated freight corridors (and similar projects). This is because strategic plans have to be drawn up by the central government and planning agencies; they cannot be entrusted to any one private entity.”
Louis Berger is a global infrastructure advisory firm.
“There will have to be a national spatial strategy, which is first the economic blueprint against which

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