India expects to complete the auction of 3G licenses by March 31, Sam Pitroda, an adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said today, according to a Bloomberg report. “It will happen in this fiscal year,” Pitroda said in an interview in Mumbai today. The government had set January 14 as the tentative deadline to start taking bids for the airwaves as per its schedule announced in October. The auction will be announced “very soon,” Pitroda said, without specifying when it may start.