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Two key tasks for Sitharaman

The IBC needs serious reform; competition law requires a review

Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister
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If the government wants to stick to the same numbers even now, there is no scope for offering any tax sops that are already pencilled in, Sitharaman told

Somasekhar Sundaresan
Even as the new minister takes charge at North Block and gets busy with the Union Budget, having charge over both the finance and corporate affairs ministries, there is a bunch of homework to attend to right after. Transition management is as vital in these ministries as it would be for the Congress party if its president walks away having conceded defeat.

Of course, the Union Budget speech too (usually the prospectus of the government in power on the economic front, and not just tax policy) could make mention of some of these. It has forever been tempting to write in
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