Data compiled by CMIE shows that new investment proposals as a whole have seen a declining trend in the past two regimes, with private sector investments dropping sharply the public sector investment have inched up marginally, close to 7.6 lakh crore a year, but it hasn't been able to make up for the shortfall in the private investments. The private sector investment dropped almost 35 percent over the last few years from 11.83 lakh crore a year to 7.9 lakh crore a year. Mahesh Vyas, MD & CEO of Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE), Ajit Ranade, chief economist at Aditya Birla Group and V Srinivasan, former deputy MD of Axis Bank discussed at length about the statistics.