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Hits and misses of UPA's first 100 days

Friday, 28 August 2009, 04:12 Hrs | 5 Comments

"Not much has been done for better yields. Nothing has been learned from the past."

But Chandrasekhar, who was also president of FICCI, maintains that it was because of the government's focused policies that India was able to maintain a growth of over 6.5 percent and that the performance on that count was commendable.

"Through the budget the government put a process by which the revival of the economy was possible after the downturn. It was because of the timely and quick policy actions that economy is showing signs of revival," he said.

Looking forward, experts also said that a lot more was also required to ensure that all pending reforms were put on the fast track, especially after the clear electoral verdict for the UPA government.

"Many more things that we were expecting has not happened like pension reforms, banking reforms, insurance reforms. But then there is time for that. I hope it will happen in the winter session of parliament," said FICCI's Mitra.

Well-known economic and corporate analyst Gurcharan Das said the time had also come for the government to shift the focus of reforms to areas equally important for the country and its citizens.

"We have done a good job so far as economic reform is concerned. Now I feel it is time for a great deal of administrative reform, policy reform, judicial reform. We have to work on a more efficient delivery system," Das said.

"Unless our system is transparent, no reform or development can reach the bottom of the pyramid."
Source: IANS

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1: The way the new government started their innings with setting targets and action plan, it is more or less moving forward. After many many years, any government has shown real interest to stick to the business. It has to be pushed further and hope it will gain that momentum. This is a fact for generations that the attitude of politicians & government officials are always lacklustre and lacks basic moral responsibility towards their duties which results either poor implementation or no implementation of declared schemes but the report on paper in many cases shows the implementation result positive. Money gone to someone's pocket without producing desired result, no actual work done and people continue to suffer but who cares? Government should remember that declaring scheme and seeing implementation report on paper sitting at Delhi never matches with the actual work. I feel that there should be a set mechanism like any other ministry to ensure the implementation of the declared schemes and to ensure that the people at bottom level enjoy the benefits which are meant for them. Also agriculture can kill more than 50% of our population if it is affected due to shortage of monsoon rainfall. Dependency of monsoon shall be reduced, it is possible but lack of will of the governments produced nothing good on this front. Hope this government will do something in real which will benefit huge people living under dire proverty belonging to farming family.

Posted by:Firoz Md. Mallick - 30 Aug, 2009

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2: It is an admitted fact that it is very difficult to satisfy everyone in the family, not to talk of Government or political parties. The common man is least bothered about the report card of Goverments, what they need is ROTI, KAPRDA AUR MAKAN. History is witness to failure of predictions of experts regarding GDP and INFLATION. At the end of the day all have to look up towards the sky for timely rain to assist the agriculture sector for producing sufficient food crops. The agriculture and farmers must be given priority. All said and done, it is nature which controls our nation's economy.

Posted by:ANOOPAM MODAK - 28 Aug, 2009

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3: Well, atleast they have delivered more than the NDA. I am sure Manmohan Singh will bring the economy back on the track with Chidambaram.

Posted by:Ravi - 28 Aug, 2009

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Its big Flop Sugar is costing Rs.40 Rice will touch Rs 100,PDS is a gunnybag for Congress, Rising cost unemployment PVT sctor buglings RIL NTPC, all are the hallmarks of the SLEEPING GOVT Delhi Govt pulling off ELECTRICITY SUBSIDY, huge amount allocations remember we are in RECESSION, less TAX Collections2009-10 to commonwealth games Common is squeezed to the last drop of Blood