Former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, Economist Jean Dreze and former Union minister S Narayan will also be a part of council meant to revitalise Tamil Nadu's economy.
Former RBI governor Rajan says India’s relative success with first wave likely led to a sense that vaccines could be rolled out slowly, adds that the govt is now in 'emergency mode'.
Nearly 180 academics from Yale, Columbia, Oxford universities also voiced support for Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who quit as a professor of Ashoka University earlier this week.
Rajan said govt’s ambitious target to make India a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25 was ‘more aspirational than carefully computed’, even before the pandemic.
India needs to worry about medium-term growth trajectory and see if the current levels of demand are sustainable in future, the former RBI governor says at ASCENT eConclave 2020.
Until now, units operating even in recognised industrial areas needed a separate factory licence. The move is expected to especially give a boost to small and medium enterprises.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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