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The government hopes to monetise public sector assets – either land or projects – to raise money and plough it back into infrastructure investment. This sounds great in theory but how it works in practice is another question. The top edit examines the risks and rewards. Read it here.
Other views examine the PM’s open support for the private sector, the outlook for the borrowing-driven growth plan, questions around the disengagement agreement in eastern Ladakh and the need for a “bad bank”.
Narendra Modi spoke eloquently on the wealth-creating prowess of the private sector in Parliament. But Debashis Basu points out that
