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Union Power Minister R K Singh said that a lobby had been instrumental in opposing privatisation of state-run utilities.
“When there was nothing, there was public sector...we did not come here out of choice; we came here because there was nobody else…,” Singh said while addressing the inaugural session of National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) 'Indian Power Station (IPS) 2020' held at Raipur today.
It makes no sense that when other people are setting up power plants the government has to exit, he said, adding that he did not believe it was correct. “That is an aspect which I think
