Not only infra projects, govt must also exit jails, schools: Amitabh Kant

At the same time, he was also critical of India's pvt sector, terming it as irrational, insensitive

The government needs to exit infrastructure projects and even look at handing over jails, schools and colleges to the private sector as happens to be the case in countries like Canada and Australia, NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. 

At the same time, he was highly critical of India's private sector, terming it as "most irrational" and "insensitive". 

Kant said it messed up projects by aggressive bidding and creating current crisis in the public private partnership (PPP) model. 

"The government has done a lot of big projects but the government is not good at operation and maintenance. Therefore,