A new approach, some simple innovations and a few tricks of the trade was all that it took to balance the state budget, says Haseeb A Drabu, National Editor, Business Standard who, in January, was appointed economic advisor to the Jammu & Kashmir Government.
In about four months, he worked out a zero-deficit budget for a state which has never had one in the last 50 years. An inside account of the measures that restored the budgetary balance.
I was at the Finance Commission
