The JHC has faulted the design of BIA and held to account the people responsible ,namely, decision makers in awarding the contract ,okaying the design and not following procedures.No body has denied the mistake pointed out. I do not see any thing objectionable in this.
-NRN should not be criticized-Is he beyond criticism?He is an entrepreneur who made it big and made a power to reckon with in the international arena in IT. That does not make him a God.He can be criticized if he is wrong.May be the media has given him larger than life image. Funnily he has not made any comment, as is proper.Why do others talk crap?
-Private investors will be demotivated.-If private investors commit mistakes, should they be applauded?They must take the rap for their mistakes.Would the private industry let go of their CEO and senior managers, if they make similar mistakes in their companies?How come Hyderabad airport is not censured?Ascribing motive is non sense. The committee has been asked on specific request to go into the affairs of BIA.It has done a job.Now you fault it.At this rate you shall direct the independent agencies or what is left of them,like C&AG and CBI to arrive at conclusions dictated by politicians and industrialists.(unfortunately this is the case). What is sad is the lack of accountability by the industrialists.They do not seem to be different from politicos as for as accountability is concerned.Indications are that the report shall be shelved.
The mistake is to have tabled the report before all members have signed it.
BANGALORE: The state government has landed itself in a spot, as its Joint House Committee report on the Bengaluru International Airport has come
in for severe criticism from industry captains. They believe the report questions the very premise of the public-private partnership model on which the airport project was built.
The Rs 2,500-crore BIA is the first and largest PPP project to have come up in the state. Over Rs 50,000 crore is riding on the back of several PPP projects in road and infrastructure projects. Barring this, the state government is talking of PPP projects in biotechnology, IT, textile and agro-processing, etc.
“How can the state government talk about PPP when this is how they treat their private partners? The government is sending the wrong signal to industry on the future of PPP,” said Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon and chairperson of the state’s Vision Group on Biotechnology. “This report will surely create a temporary feel-bad factor in industry. As an industry body, we’ll definitely take up this matter with the government, in the right spirit,” said T Parabrahman, chairman, CII Karnataka chapter.
K R Girish, president, Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, said, “This report could also damage the state’s prospects for organizing the Global Investors’ Meet in June 2010. Such reports will make it difficult for the government to invite foreign investment and private equity participation for projects in the pipeline.” Harish Bijoor, domain expert, says the Hyderabad airport built with private participation gives you a feel of being in an international airport. So, there is nothing wrong with it.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Experts-slam-House-panel-report-on-BIA/articleshow/5367897.cms
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