# Prof Sundararajan speaks to CNN about upgrading India's power infrastructure

1 Faculty News August 1, 2012 ![CNN logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027323.jpg?itok=3feg8BmM)>

Excerpt from [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/08/01/intv-india-power-crisis-sundararajan.cnn) -- "Unlike China, India is a free-market democracy.... One way I certainly think the country can build its infrastructure aggressively is by involving the private sector more…. \[The government\] needs to pursue these public-private partnerships as actively as they can."

[Watch the interview](http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/08/01/intv-india-power-crisis-sundararajan.cnn)