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Parekh panel for hiking power charges, rail fares

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 5:33 AM IST

The high-level committee on financing of infrastructure, which is headed by HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh, also pitched for 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the telecom sector. The limit at present is 74 per cent.

The panel also suggested raising prices of natural gas.

These recommendations are aimed at attracting Rs 51.46 lakh crore for funding infrastructure sector during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), said the report which was presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier in the day.

The government, the report said, should draw "a time- bound action plan...With a view to improving the enabling environment for private investment which is expected to finance about 47 per cent of the projected investment during the 12th Plan".

The share of private sector in infrastructure funding was 37.53 per cent during the 11th Plan, the report said, adding, the contribution of public sector is estimated to decline to 53.32 per cent in the 12th Plan from 62.47 per cent in the previous Plan. MORE

  

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First Published: Oct 03 2012 | 7:15 PM IST

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