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Why CEA Arvind Subramanian is a fair choice for an extension

As CEA, he came up with ideas like bad bank, Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile, universal basic income

Arvind Subramanian
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Arvind Subramanian

Arup Roychoudhury New Delhi
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian could be given a two-year extension, if some news reports are to be believed. Such a move would keep him in North Block until at least September 2019.
 
Such reports have certainly set tongues wagging in the corridors of power. As CEA, Subramanian has been instrumental in coming up with a number of new ideas in his economic surveys, including the concept of a state-backed bad bank, Jandhan-Aadhaar-Mobile, and universal basic income.
 
However, in spite of being one of the government’s senior-most economists, it is understood that he was not consulted by the