Private sector will come in when they see a return, says Hardeep Puri

Any business operation run in the private sector produces its own business plans. We are sensitive to failure, he said

References have been made to UDAN. UDAN is a demand-driven scheme. The government is very proud. Under Modiji’s leadership, we have operationalised 174 UDAN routes. And UDAN becomes operational because the state government, the Central government and all other agencies put something on the table. 

But how will the state government and the Central government put something on the table if you don’t have a system of cross-subsidisation provided by private-public partnership? So, we have a situation where some of my members would want us to go on financing loss-making entities, and at the same time, providing resources for connecting unserved