Tough reforms are tough in India’s democratic fabric without political determination and strong administrative will, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said Tuesday, adding that the current government has shown the courage and determination to carry out carry out tough reforms in all sectors.
“Strict reforms are very difficult in the Indian context. We are too democratic. For the first time, the government has had the courage and determination to carry out stubborn reforms in all sectors, ”Kant said. “Mining, coal, agriculture, work, these are very difficult reforms. The easier reforms were eliminated. A lot of political determination and administrative will was needed to carry out these reforms that are being carried out ”, he added.
Kant said many more reforms were needed, in logistics and energy, for example. “But this government has at least demonstrated its political will to make stubborn reforms and we need to carry them out to become a manufacturing nation. It is not easy to compete with China, ”he said.
“It requires a very stubborn ground-level approach that is being attempted for the first time in India,” he said at the webinar entitled “Strategic Enablers and Policy Ecosystem for Atmanirbhar Bharat” organized by Swarajya in association with Vedanta Resources Limited.
Kant also spoke about the emphasis of the new government production-related incentive scheme for manufacturing that focuses on creating some “champions”, as he called them in specific sectors, rather than trying to do too much by considering all kinds of companies in all sectors.
Kant said the agricultural sector needed to be reformed and argued that mandis, or government-controlled market patios, were not being eliminated. “The Mandis will be there and the MSP will be there. But the farmer will have alternative options … I firmly believe that the farmer must have a choice. “
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