ABSTRACT
The Bombay Plan (1945) advocated a capitalist model of development using the resources of the public sector for its own advancement – a phenomenon that is an extension of the neoliberal agenda by governments across the world by involving private players in big public projects in the name of utilising the managerial expertise and capital from the private market for efficient delivery of public services, supposedly in the larger interest of the people. The term public–private partnership is a euphemism for this scourge, as one of the depredations associated with liberalisation of the economy in the arena of social infrastructure. The chapter’s multi-pronged analysis of the origin, rise, and models of the concept in the Indian context concludes with the argument for not only its undesirability but also possible fallout in school education.
