Land Reforms

Viral Acharya says govt needs to undertake heavy disinvestment program, reduce its reliance on bond markets

The Indian government needs to reduce its reliance on bond markets and undertake a heavy disinvestment programme along with urgently implementing land, labour and agricultural reforms, former RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya said

MPC swings from ‘neutral’ to ‘accommodative’, but the RBI show is a non-event until banks play their part

In the backdrop of falling growth and cooling inflation, it was clear that a rate cut was on the cards.

Narendra Modi govt needs to prioritise land, labour reforms in second-term, say analysts

The economy is undergoing cyclical downturn at present which has seen a dip in growth to the 7% levels

Land, labour, financial sector reforms needed to improve manufacturing, boost economic growth, says Chief Economic Adviser

The share of manufacturing in the economy has grown just 1.5 percentage points in the last three years to 18 percent, and good exports have shown little sign of a pick up in the last five years.

Land reforms in India remain a stalled and forgotten agenda; no progress made on CSLR report on issue

Seeing the magnitude of the problem of land inequality, the Indian government had initiated land reforms programmes soon after Independence.

Not enough jobs, private investments missing: What’s wrong with the world’s fastest growing economy?

A growth sans jobs leaves nothing much for the common man to cheer

India's landless poor: Post-liberalisation era brought in wealth to a stressed economy but did little to end rural poverty

Land reform was a major policy thrust area in the first three decades after Independence during which zamindari was abolished, a land ceiling was imposed and surplus and wasteland were distributed among the landless.

Revamping agriculture: Govt scores high on intent, patchy on implementation; litmus test will be persuading states to reform

If PM Modi is really serious about doing his bit for agriculture, he and Amit Shah must push BJP governments to execute the needed agriculture reforms.

Four years of Narendra Modi: 10 charts that show how the economy fared under the NDA regime vis-a-vis UPA rule

Will the Narendra Modi magic work in 2019? That is the question staring Indians, and global investors, in the face.

Gujarat polls: Narendra Modi's victory shows BJP has left GST woes behind; but what does it mean for economy?

BJP can be credited for implementing successfully a plethora of reforms in economy and there is really little left that has not been taken up with alacrity