Cut govt salaries, review RBI role: RSS-linked body writes to PM Modi

Arth Yagna describes itself as an organisation of nationalist professionals.

The government should shut down 20 ministries and 100 departments, extend the goods and services tax to alcohol and petrol, and review the role of the Reserve Bank of India, said a group affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Arth Yagna, which describes itself as an organisation of nationalist professionals, wants the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act and norms for small businesses suspended for a year. It wants salaries cut for all central and state government employees by 30 per cent till March 2021; easy credit for migrant workers affected in the