Economic reforms process incomplete, fresh thinking needed: Manmohan Singh

Singh stressed on the need to keep inequality under control and balancing it with high economic growth

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the process of economic reforms he was associated with was "still incomplete" and that a "fresh thinking" was needed to evolve a new design for the country's social and economic policy.

The policy should be a judicious mix of both high rate of economic growth and a strong focus on containing economic inequalities, said Singh, considered the architect of the economic liberalisation measures unleashed in 1991.

Noting that the opening of new opportunities for people born without social and economic privileges was the beacon behind economic reforms he was associated with, he