About PricewaterhouseCoopers (P) Ltd

PricewaterhouseCoopers (P) Ltd, the largest professional services firm in India, is one of the two organisations appointed to manage the PACS Programme. Read an interview with PwC Ltd's Executive Director, Mr Amrit Pandurangi, about the organisation's involvement in the PACS Programme.

The company is a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the global network of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, the world's largest professional services organisation employing over 120,000 people in 139 countries.

The PwC network channels knowledge and value through five lines of service:

• Corporate finance and restructuring.
• Human resource advisory services.
• Assurance and business advisory services including government reforms and infrastructure development.
• Tax and legal services.
• Business process outsourcing.

For more information on PwC, please visit http://www.pwcglobal.com/

In India, PwC has nearly 4,000 professionals, including economists, sociologists, accounting and financial management, IT, training and education specialists, urban planners and engineers who provide a variety of services for private and public sector and government organisations.

The government reforms and infrastructure development (GRID) group of PwC in India helps public sector organisations, all levels of government and large donors to:

• develop policies
• forge public-private partnerships
• improve performance
• strengthen institutions
• build capacity
• maintain accounting and financial management systems, and
• develop human resources.

GRID's areas of expertise include urban development, e-governance, social development, state-level reforms, public sector restructuring, power and water utilities and transportation.

PwC has experience of working with:

• international financing institutions such as the World Bank
• various state governments
• municipal corporations
• central and state government institutions
• urban development and housing boards
• state utilities such as the electricity boards of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
• Indian financial institutions such as the Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation
• industry associations, and
• civil society organisations such as Save the Children and Development Alternatives.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (P) Ltd's head office is in Kolkata. It also has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Pune.