For our programmes, we need far more revenue: Gopal Agarwal

Generation of jobs, bringing the unorganised sector into the formal one, agriculture reforms and banks’ bad loans will be the focus of the government after the victory in the recent assembly polls, GOPAL KRISHNA AGARWAL, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s spokesperson on economic affairs, tells Archis Mohan. Edited excerpts:

After the Uttar Pradesh triumph, could one expect the Narendra Modi government to again take up its promise of reforms while continuing to pursue its poor-welfare agenda?

Promoting ‘ease of doing business’ (EODB) is one of the main focus areas. Our pro-poor policies, building of infrastructure and giving benefits to backward classes have been