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| 'The aam aadmi has to benefit from our policy' | 10-OCT-09 |
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| Union finance minister PRANAB MUKHERJEE says developing countries must have more say in decision-making at global economic fora and the priority at home is to ensure high economic growth, with equity. |
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| Barun Roy: What are we, really? | 08-OCT-09 |
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| What’s wrong with us? Are we turning into a land of hypocrites and intolerant, narrow-minded nationalists? We can’t take criticism, we can’t tolerate differences of opinion, we can’t take a joke, we can’t laugh at ourselves, and we can’t stand being laughed at. |
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| Fat cats and aam aadmi | 07-OCT-09 |
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| Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid may be surprised to know that the CEOs of many Indian companies may be underpaid—not by global standards (a meaningless comparison) but by the government’s own guidelines. Asking for CEO restraint when it comes to pay and perquisites, therefore, is to shoot in the wrong direction. Mr Khurshid’s statement last week, two years after the Prime Minister made a similar appeal, erroneously suggests that corporate compensation in India is an unfettered gravy train. At senior levels, executive compensation is subject to government guidelines that are de facto restrictions linked to net profits (none of it taxpayers’ money). |
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| The essence of NREGS | 10-SEP-09 |
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| The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was launched by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the first flush of its commitment to the 'Aam Aadmi' agenda. Criticised by many for a variety of reasons, from fiscal burden to the prospect of leakages, it nevertheless became the UPA's defining and differentiating programme. |
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| Arvind Singhal: Aam aadmi and Bharat | 16-JUL-09 |
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| What started a few years ago as a counter-point to the NDA government’s “India Shining” proclamations is now turning into a crescendo. Indeed, the “Aam Aadmi” and “Bharat” terminology has now moved beyond the realm of political posturing, and is now well-entrenched in the lingua franca of the different chambers of commerce and the leadership of corporate India. |
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| My Budget: Ramesh Ramanathan | 07-JUL-09 |
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| It is a very mild sort of Budget, an aam aadmi Budget. But as far as the tourism industry goes, I feel it is another opportunity lost to bring tourism to the centre stage. We should have followed up campaigns such as Incredible India. But there are positives. The move to do away with surcharge on income tax and raising the exemption slab should put money in the hands of people. The development of national highways should help road tourism, which is for the future. |
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| An aam aadmi Budget | 07-JUL-09 |
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| The market was euphoric as it expected many reforms from the Budget. The Budget has pragmatically projected a slowing revenue growth and stressed the need for spending money on supporting the economy. It is clearly an aam aadmi Budget that has tried to put money in the hands of the consumer by increasing spending and cutting taxes. On the positive side, the abolition of fringe benefit tax (FBT) and surcharge on the income tax will help the aam admi. Introduction of GST by April 1, 2010 will also help in blocking the tax leakage and reducing regulatory arbitrage between unorganised and organised sectors. |
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| Banking on aam aadmi | 07-JUL-09 |
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| Increased rural incomes likely to lead to higher spends on consumer goods. |
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| Pranab gets Mamata's 'good luck' call | 05-JUL-09 |
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| In the Railway Budget, Mamata Banerjee tried to appease the aam aadmi. And after the Budget, she tried to assure Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the General Budget that he would present on Monday would also be a “successful budget.” Before leaving for Kolkata on Friday evening, Banerjee called up Mukherjee and said, “Pranab da, don’t worry, your Budget will be very good. It will be very successful. We will be there to support your Budget.” The finance minister had a hearty laugh and said, “Yes, you all should be present in the Lok Sabha on Monday. And please reach Parliament early.” Mukherjee will present the Budget at 11am on Monday. |
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| More focus on passenger services and aam aadmi | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Given the impressive financial and operational performance of the Indian Railways over the past few years and the backdrop of the current economic slowdown, the first Railway Budget of the UPA-II government was expected to be a formidable task. However, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have risen to the occasion by striking a delicate balance between the social and economic focus of the Indian Railways. |
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| Taxes worth Rs 910 cr in Maha budget | 05-JUN-09 |
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| The Maharashtra budget for 2009-10 announced today many incentives for the ‘aam aadmi’ — a move clearly aimed at the state elections that are due in October — but also proposed wide-ranging taxation measures on the so-called luxury and high-end products that is projected to net an additional Rs 910 crore. |
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| A political storyboard | 29-MAY-09 |
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| The Congress Party's Rs 150-crore ad campaign for the 2009 elections has been the largest by a political party to date. A behind-the-scenes look at what went into it. |
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| Kanika Datta: The good, the bad and the aam aadmi | 28-MAY-09 |
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| When he finally chose Sanand in Gujarat to relocate the mother plant for the revolutionary Nano small car from Singur in West Bengal, Ratan Tata made an uncharacteristically political statement. “I hope that there is a bad ‘M’ and a good ‘M’. We need that transition,” he said, making a veiled reference to Mamata Banerjee’s anti-Nano campaign that drove the car project to Narendra Modi’s Gujarat. |
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| Congress made lives of 'aam aadmi' difficult: Modi | 07-MAY-09 |
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| Accusing the Congress of "failing" to contain inflation in the country, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the party made the life of "aam aadmi very difficult" economically during its rule. |
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