Published: April 24 2006 10:04 | Last updated:       April 24 2006 10:04
                                ushil Kumar Shinde, India's power minister, explains his ministry's latest initiative to plug the country's widening energy needs. "We're on a war footing," he says.

Two months into the job and Mr Shinde says he is excited about the offensive, a central and innovative feature of which is five "shell companies" that he believes address the lessons of a disappointing decade of attracting foreign investment.
source:Financial Times
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