Delhi Water Privatisation Plan Part 2

When the Delhi government decided to privatize the water infrastructure in the Indian capital in 2000, a strong resistance movement emerged. These activists, which include Arvind Kejriwal, have played a critical role of maintaining access to water for Delhiites and have shown the power of collective action.

Due to the successful campaign which exposed the corruption of this potential World Bank project, the project was halted. This process of privatizing the management of municipal water has happened across many cities and its important for people to understand how this happens, why and under what conditions. Arvind Kejriwal explains the influence of the World Bank Group in the bidding procedure to predetermine which corporation (Price Waterhouse Coopers) would profit from the management of such an important public resource in the city of Delhi.

"Do we need the World Bank in India?", asks Kejriwal.

Activist and resident of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal is an activist for governmental transparency. He has received awards for his involvement with grassroots organisations in India, prominent one being the "Indian of the Year in Public Service" in 2006. He also founded the grassroots organisation Parivartan, devoted to the cause of ensuring a just and accountable governance in India.

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News & Politics

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• Delhi
• Privatisation
• Water
• Globalisation
• neo-liberalism
• capitalism
• Arvind
• Kejriwal
• India
• IFI
• IMF
• bidding
• World
• Bank
• Grou

[hotparo]

he s an awesome person!!a perfect combination of brain,courage and leadership

[seshankvish9]

@AquaticRobot did you even see the video? Privatization will rape the citixzens of india.

[knakul1]

this is an awesome speech he completely demonstrated how the goverment was dealing with water supply which no one was aware hats of arvind

[hotparo]

he s an awesome person!!

[AquaticRobot]

In a free market capitalist society railway, education, health care, electricity, airports, ports, roads, highways, rivers, forests, water supply, mines everything should be privatized. Unfortunately India has state monopoly in all these sectors. Being a supporter of free market capitalism & individual freedom, I am for water privatization. It is unfortunate some socialist activists are trying to disrupt privatization process in India, the government is too soft on these anti-property activists.

[namita9012021]

I reaally want to stand up and applaud Mr. Arvind for the massive effort and attention to detail...its just amazing ! hats off to you sir....

[blindzight]

"We start the pumps, and if the pump goes on for an hour this much water must have gone by..."

[DrSharlach]

Very interesting! Can anybody pls. translate for me what the junior clerk's response was as to how he came up with the figures for water production for Dehli? Thx.

[Chinxyn]

Brilliant!!! Well done ... your attention to detail was wonderful