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What is meant by privatisation and how could it effect economic reforms in India?

  • UPSC 1999
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Privatisation is the transfer of activity, ownership or responsibility from the state to private hands. In India the term has never been merely economic: because the public sector was designed as an instrument of planned development and social justice, defining privatisation is already a sociological exercise in deciding what the state owes its citizens.

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  • Three meanings of privatisation
  • The Indian vocabulary
  • How it has shaped the reform process
  • The sociological cost
  • Conclusion

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