R Gopalan

Increase in small savings to bring down govt borrowing: R Gopalan

<br /><br /> Earlier this month, the government raised interest rates on small savings investment schemes through post offices by up to 0.5 percent.

Food price index for 14 Jan down 1.03 percent year on year

India's food price index declined 1.03 percent in the year to 14 January government data on Friday showed, compared with an annual drop of 0.42 percent in the previous week.

Why R Golpalan feels S&P downgrade was unfair

Economic affairs secretary R Gopalan tells CNBC-TV18 in an interview that he did not expect S&P to downgrade outlook for India.

All G20 nations should share tax, banking data: R Gopalan

Stressing that the era of banking secrecy laws was over, Department of Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan said it was vital to build a consensus on sharing of past banking data as it would help in investigation of earlier cases of tax evasion.

India to borrow Rs 2.2 lakh crore in Oct-March

The government had in the February budget pencilled in gross market borrowing of Rs 4.17 lakh crore for the 2011-12 fiscal year, to help bridge its fiscal deficit that is forecast to be at 4.6 percent of the GDP.

Economic affairs secretary may get 3-month extension

The IAS officer played an important role in formulation of the 2012-13 Budget.