Previous chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian presented 4 economic surveys with 4 big ideas that indicated a way forward for comprehensive development.
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In the Budget, will we see new institutions come up to train more doctors? Or will the FM agree to the bizarre idea of bridge courses for doctors from alternative medicine?
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Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Dr A S prepared fantastic Economic Surveys. As the column notes with some regret, they did not translate into economic Taj Mahals. 2. That takes me back to the start of my career, as a Management Trainee with Dr Charat Ram. He wanted management information to be put up to him in elaborate formats, which he kept changing and chipping. An older colleague explained to me, that was Lalaji’s way of fixing the figures firmly in his mind. His older brother, Dr Bharat Ram, was entirely different. A man after my heart, he wanted a few important figures – production, sales, profit, cash availability- to be written for him on a piece of paper. 3. We do not want erudite Economic Surveys. We are all waiting anxiously to see the light of day for the economy.
Dr A S prepared fantastic Economic Surveys. As the column notes with some regret, they did not translate into economic Taj Mahals. 2. That takes me back to the start of my career, as a Management Trainee with Dr Charat Ram. He wanted management information to be put up to him in elaborate formats, which he kept changing and chipping. An older colleague explained to me, that was Lalaji’s way of fixing the figures firmly in his mind. His older brother, Dr Bharat Ram, was entirely different. A man after my heart, he wanted a few important figures – production, sales, profit, cash availability- to be written for him on a piece of paper. 3. We do not want erudite Economic Surveys. We are all waiting anxiously to see the light of day for the economy.