PURA by partnership

  • 08/02/2004

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

The Centre's new model of PURA is more than a plan for "Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas" but is a "Partnership of entrepreneurs, government administrators and the local populace for Urban Amenities within Rural Ambience". In the present scheme of PURA, the Government does not proceed alone but lets others have co-ownership. Thus the Government should not fight shy of roping in private investors or trying the profit-seeking model.