Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, says the government's exit from many sectors will help it to neutrally administer its policy-making role.
The Atmanirbhar narrative was big in this Budget, but it is here that the danger lies, because the sentiment of self-reliance is seductive and popular.
Strategic disinvestment of govt enterprises ‘created by taxpayers money is not right’, Swadeshi Jagran Manch says, but lauds steps announced to revive Covid-hit economy.
Speaking at the Assocham Foundation Week, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also said that the pace of disinvestment, hit by the Covid, will pick up in the coming months.
Modi government is unlikely to earn the money it had hoped to this year due to Covid. The last thing it needs is slowing down on Rs 2.1 lakh crore disinvestment plan.
If done right, IPO can bring transparency & efficiency to LIC, ensure govt doesn’t force it to buy weak PSUs, and improve resource allocation in the economy.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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