A K Bhattacharya
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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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A K Bhattacharya: Changing for the better
The information and broadcasting ministry's business-like and result-oriented handling of several issues has set a template for other ministries to follow
A K Bhattacharya: Much more than numbers
The confusion over whether the growth rate projected is in real or nominal terms has influenced the other targets as well
A K Bhattacharya: Questions on strategic disinvestment
Doubts over implementation of a Cabinet-approved strategic sale policy are puzzling
A K Bhattacharya: Light at the end of the tunnel
Surplus in March, the last month of a financial year, has helped the government reduce fiscal deficit in the last few years. It should judiciously use the savings of last year to meet the fiscal defic
A K Bhattacharya: Reducing tax exemptions across sectors
It would perhaps make more sense if the finance ministry gave greater emphasis on the need for phasing out concessions in indirect taxes
A K Bhattacharya: The influences on the Budget
The impact the Economic Survey had on the Budget proposals and the influence the Prime Minister wielded on them deserve close attention
A K Bhattacharya: Bringing Delhi Metro up to speed
The mass rapid transport system has been slipping both in terms of meeting project deadlines and revising its fare structure. Listing it on the stock exchange is one way to enforce financial and proje
A K Bhattacharya: How about a Cabinet panel on exports?
There is an added advantage of having an inter-ministerial body monitoring exports. Proposals to boost exports can then be examined from all perspectives
A K Bhattacharya: Looking for logic in a reshuffle
The ministries and departments, where bureaucrats are parked after being moved out of key positions, reflect the priorities of the government
A K Bhattacharya: Overcoming inherited problems
Many Indian companies saw their indebtedness rise at an alarming pace, while the necessary but tough measures to stem the rot in the banking sector were postponed
A K Bhattacharya: Time to burn the midnight oil
Falling oil prices globally have benefitted India hugely in various ways. What if the prices were to rise again? The government needs to plan and complete subsidies reforms in sectors impacted by oil
A K Bhattacharya: Loosening fiscal policy is a trap
Loosening fiscal policy in the name of providing more resources for investment would be a trap as this could turn the government away from reforms
A K Bhattacharya: Not good economics or politics
Stalling the introduction of better emission standards is based on specious logic, especially in a country that has 13 of the world's most polluted cities
A K Bhattacharya: Credibility of fiscal promises
There is little talk about whether Mr Jaitley would be able to meet the fiscal deficit target that he had set for the current year - 3.9 per cent of gross domestic product or GDP
A K Bhattacharya: Odd-even rule: an escape route for Kejriwal?
With many exemptions and caveats, the road-rationing system may be another disappointment in reducing Delhi's pollution woes
A K Bhattacharya: Black money and the PAN
Raising limits for PAN details goes against govt's stated position of countering the black money issue
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