Infrastructure development through PPPs in India: criteria for sustainability assessment

Public private partnerships (PPPs) allow the Indian Government to leverage private capital for meeting the widening demand-supply gap in the provision of infrastructure services. The private sector, however, prefers to limit the participation to financially attractive projects only, thereby resultin...

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Published inJournal of environmental planning and management Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 708 - 729
Main Authors Patil, Nilesh A., Tharun, Dolla, Laishram, Boeing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.04.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Assessments
Criteria
Environment management
Financial services
Government procurement
Governments
India
Infrastructure
infrastructure development
Interest groups
Participation
Partnerships
Private sector
Procurement
procurement process
Public infrastructure
Public private partnerships
public private partnerships (PPPs)
Public-private partnership
Social services delivery
Sustainability
sustainability assessment
Sustainable development
India
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Summary:Public private partnerships (PPPs) allow the Indian Government to leverage private capital for meeting the widening demand-supply gap in the provision of infrastructure services. The private sector, however, prefers to limit the participation to financially attractive projects only, thereby resulting in patterns of infrastructure creation impeding the progress towards sustainable development. In order to promote sustainable development, the PPP procurement process should focus on incentivising the private sector for sustainable infrastructure development rather than concentrating on ensuring financial sustainability only. This paper discusses the principles-based PPP-specific framework that has been developed to facilitate assessment of PPP projects' progress towards sustainable development. The framework development was based on a holistic approach to sustainability assessment and subsequently validated through questionnaire survey with key stakeholders in the Indian PPP programme. This framework will provide the decision makers with appropriate decision aid for integration of sustainable development principles in the PPP procurement process.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2015.1038337
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ISSN:1360-0559
0964-0568
1360-0559
DOI:10.1080/09640568.2015.1038337