Rising inequality should concern us all, says former PM Manmohan Singh

Positive govt intervention would ensure that the fruits of development were also available to the people at the bottom of the ladder, said Singh

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday dismissed arguments that inequality could be reduced without high economic growth and cautioned against backlash from the people due to lop-sided development.

Releasing the India Social Development Report-2018 on ‘Rising Inequalities in India’, prepared by the Council for Social Development, Singh, considered the father of liberalisation in India as finance minister in 1991-96, said meaningful solution to the problems of poverty, ignorance and disease, which still inflict millions of Indians, could be found only in the framework of a rapidly expanding economy, which should go hand in hand with positive government intervention.

Singh,