IIPM-INDIA: While everyone’s been talking at length about the great Indian retail boom

Excerpts from the interview:

The transportation and logistics sector in the country, despite being a high priority sector, suffers from infrastructural issues. What is your take on the future?

In the last few years, we have achieved a lot in terms of infrastructure, especially in roads and ports. The government is pretty pro-active in the way they are willing to unshackle. Yes, they are not doing it at the speed with which we would like them to, as we have seen the delay that has taken place in modernising airports or even ports.

We don’t plan to build capacities, say for the next 20 or 30 years. We are either doing it for today or for yesterday. The Prime Minister has already declared that the infrastructure sector would require an investment of $300 billion, so I feel everyone has the concept or the knowhow regarding what needs to be done exactly.

I strongly feel that we need to have much more expertise in the implementation process. Our ideas need to be implemented at the ground level.