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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The Narendra Modi government's coal Ordinance is a bold move, but it may not be able to tackle the central problem of minimising the loss of coal production
A new team is in place in the finance ministry. Can it help Arun Jaitley produce a sterling Budget next February?
Pushback to Modi govt's policy pronouncements has already started, it now has a very small window of opportunity to bring in reforms
After managing to rein in non-Plan expenditure, the government now has the chance to introduce durable reforms in the subsidies regime
The recent notification on foodgrain procurement shows Modi is relying more on incremental reforms rather than big-bang moves
The FM should channel savings from lower revenue expenditure to additional capital spending
Nobody should underplay the risks associated with excessive exposure to one source of financing - be it commercial borrowing or NRI deposits
Data compiled by PRS Legislative Research say a lot about the changed environment in Parliament since the formation of the Modi govt
The Modi government's conservative approach is unlikely to help them compete against surging private sector competition
Luck appears to be on the government's side. It needs to take full advantage of it by initiating long overdue economic reforms without delay
Tracking a smaller number of taxpayers with a high income base and using data from millionaire surveys and purchases of high-end cars and houses can make the tax department more efficient