How significant a role do the industry chambers' pre-Budget recommendations play in guiding the government's decisions in the Budget these days? Not much, if a key finance ministry official is to be believed. The reason, he says, is that they are narrowly self-serving and lack the overview that policy-makers have to take. So perhaps industry may have to roll back the expectation that Budget 2012-13 will revive its fortunes.
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