In a Facebook post, finance minister Arun Jaitley said a future road map could be to work towards a single standard rate instead of two standard rates of 12 per cent and 18 per cent.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
India’s ministers are a lot richer than their counterparts anywhere in the world, especially the West, so that may not be a meaningful insight into poverty in India. Whether the least well off citizens will be benefited more from government largesse or the benefits of higher growth trickling down to them is an old ideological debate. It should probably be 30 : 70. This recent discovery of the plight of the poor comes too close to the election cycle to be genuine. Growth matters. Why else do people from UP and Bihar migrate so much, seasonally, as well as long term. The idea that all Indian states will one day be equally prosperous and that this will be achieved by government intervention if nothing else works is problematic, resented deeply in the South.
India’s ministers are a lot richer than their counterparts anywhere in the world, especially the West, so that may not be a meaningful insight into poverty in India. Whether the least well off citizens will be benefited more from government largesse or the benefits of higher growth trickling down to them is an old ideological debate. It should probably be 30 : 70. This recent discovery of the plight of the poor comes too close to the election cycle to be genuine. Growth matters. Why else do people from UP and Bihar migrate so much, seasonally, as well as long term. The idea that all Indian states will one day be equally prosperous and that this will be achieved by government intervention if nothing else works is problematic, resented deeply in the South.