Letters: Powerless projects?

It is amusing to watch the bosses of banks and non-banking financial companies talk about shuttered gas-based power projects. It is painfully clear to most analysts that the loans to these projects need to be written off because India's gas production is unlikely to satisfy their minimum requirements for another five years in a best-case scenario. Yet we find bank chiefs talking about how well these projects have been executed and that the assets are on the ground and ready to go, but for the availability of gas supply. Perhaps this has something to do with the Reserve Bank of India buying into the bankers' argument and allowing them to restructure these facilities. As the old saying goes, you can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Rohan Soares Mumbai

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