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Fertiliser DBT an illusion
Despite tall claims made by the UPA and the NDA dispensations since 2012, a gradual transition to direct cash or benefit transfer of subsidy to the farmers has not been done The additional provision of Rs 65,000 crore towards fertiliser subsidy (over and above the Rs 71,000 crore allocated in the...
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Nix priority sector lending
17 November 2020 | Uttam Gupta -
Food for thought
03 November 2020 | Uttam Gupta -
Stop the flip-flop
27 October 2020 | Uttam Gupta -
Stay within limits
20 October 2020 | Uttam Gupta -
A step in the right direction
13 October 2020 | Uttam Gupta -
A taxing question
06 October 2020 | Uttam Gupta -
A mixed bag
29 September 2020 | Uttam Gupta
Don’t bank on banks
There’s no pressing need for a firm hit by the crisis to rush to banks for relief. To enjoy the fruits when the going is good and come to the bank or Govt for help when in crisis is unacceptable On March 27 the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Shaktikanta...
Open doors for trade
The Govt should shed its current protectionism. Instead, it should go for an open trade policy by slashing import duties and eliminating non-tariff barriers While presenting the Union Budget for 2020-21, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had renewed the commitment of the Modi Government to “Make in India.” She saw this as...
The GST quagmire
The Centre and States must try to fix all void in GST implementation to achieve buoyancy in tax revenue, thereby obviating the need for continuing with the compensation mechanism Faced with a dwindling tax revenue since the last financial year of 2019-20, the issue of “full” and “timely” compensation for the...
Bite the BIC bullet
The ailments afflicting PSBs won’t go away so long as majority ownership and control remain with the Government. There is a dire need to unshackle them and grant autonomy to the management The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recommended to the Centre a reduction in shareholding of the latter in...
Snap the stranglehold
The only way to avoid delay and expedite the process of privatisation of Central PSUs is to unshackle them from bureaucratic red tape Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the broad contours of the Narendra Modi Government’s plans on privatisation of Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs). A CPSU is defined as...
Time to be honest
Modi has done everything to make life easier for the taxpayer. Now, it is for the latter — especially those who have not been paying taxes as currently only 1.5 crore of 130 crore Indians comply — to reciprocate Dubbed as a transformative tax reform, on August 13 Prime Minister Narendra...
Bailout or blowout?
When the wheels of the economy on ground zero are stuck and there is little demand for credit, lowering of interest rates will not help in any way Following marathon deliberations of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) over three days, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) Governor, Shaktikanta Das, made...
