May 08, 2015 Admin
The Government Amendment Bill for the Goods and Service Tax was introduced in Lok Sabha on 19 December, 2014. Earlier it had been considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee which submitted its report in August 2013. This is one of the key reform initiatives which commenced during the earlier...
Continue ReadingApr 06, 2015 Admin
I was in Singapore on the day of Lee Kuan Yew’s cremation. As the Founding Father of Singapore he was the longest serving Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990 in recent history. Till two years ago even at the age of 89 he was active in the policy domain. Narendra Modi has done India enormous servi...
Continue ReadingMar 13, 2015 Admin
The babel around the Budget and the XIV Finance Commission and subsequent comments and analyses have now ebbed. There are some States and stakeholders who are critical based on inadequacies of allocation in the social sector. But there is a consensus that the Budget represents a credible balancing a...
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It is said that no success is final, nor failure fatal — it is the courage to continue that counts. The Delhi electoral outcome has rekindled a fresh debate on the preferred model of development. Apart from other factors some analysts argue that the economic policies of the government have a ...
Continue ReadingFeb 01, 2015 Admin
The last ten days have been packed with events. Just prior to the visit of Obama the World Economic Forum in Davos concluded its 45th annual conference of the broad theme entitled ‘The New Global Context’. This was my 17th year in the Alpine Ski Resort in Switzerland. Davos is much more...
Continue ReadingJan 20, 2015 Admin
The 13th meeting of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas was concluded last week in Ahmedabad. This congregation of Indians every year presents the diversity of Indians living and working abroad. There are basically two categories of the Indian Diaspora - Non Resident Indian ((NRI) i.e. “a citizen...
Continue ReadingJan 07, 2015 Admin
This is my first column for 2015. Let me begin by wishing my readers a very happy 2015. Sarah Ban Breathnach has said, “New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Only dreams give birth to change.” and ...
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