Reforms initiated by the United Front government have not got their due | The Indian Express

Reforms initiated by the United Front government have not got their due | The Indian Express

Written by Yoginder K. Alagh |Updated: May 16, 2019 9:02:49 am

The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.

Reforms initiated by the United Front government have not got their due

Planning in a strategic sense was revived and agriculture was accorded priority after the thoughtless WTO agreements signed by the Narasimha Rao government.

Water, energy and other non renewable resources like land will set the eventual limits of growth in the country.

As we move to the real possibility of some kind of strategic planning in June, the effectiveness of coalition regimes becomes an interesting question. The late T S R Subramanian, cabinet secretary in the Deve Gowda/ I K Gujral United Front ministry, wrote an interesting book setting out the contours of reform during his tenure in the ministry. It is an impressive chronicle by any standard.