Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram recently welcomed Biocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s offer to help improve Bengaluru’s roads and infrastructure, saying the metropolis's main problem is execution and not funding.

“I noted with interest Mrs Kiran Mazumdar Shaw's offer to fund the development of some roads in Bengaluru. A great offer! Congratulations! BUT, the problem with our public works is not the lack of public money; the problem is in the execution of the public work,” Chidambaram said in a post on X. Advertisement

He added that the government could tweak the model suggested by the Biocon chairperson, where public funds and tender processes are used to select contractors, but companies or industrialists supervise the work.

“The contractor will execute the public work (sa

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