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Letters: Axiomatic approach is key

Will Kumar eventually fit in the government's out-of-the-box idea of Make in India at NITI Aayog

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With reference to the editorial, “A pointless debate” (August 10), I endorse its observation that there was no need for NITI Aayog Vice-chairman-designate Rajiv Kumar to invoke the phantom of the foreign hand.
 
Kumar said “the grip of Indian-American economists is fading as part of the ongoing policy transformation in the government” while naming outgoing NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya and former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan to supplement his ideas.
 
Kumar places himself in the category of key “home-grown” economists, who better understood “India’s ground realities” than their foreign-educated counterparts. He also warned that the

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