{"id":2799,"date":"2003-08-16T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/16\/good-news-on-india\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T15:16:13","slug":"good-news-on-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200308\/good-news-on-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news on India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although others have done it ?oo, I think that it is almost my patriotic duty to link to this <\/a> series by Arun Shourie (via Varnam<\/a>) Here is part 2<\/a>. and don’t miss the part 3 expected tomorrow.
The articles are combative as well as logically well argued – a rare combination, but nothing less than what you expect from Arun Shourie. Excerpting any part of the articles would do injustice to the others, so makes sure that you read it from end to end.<\/p>\n

Shourie is one of the few ministers who realises that liberalisation is a good thing<\/i> and not an unhappy compromise we’ve had to make because we bankrupted ourselves in 1991.
I can only hope that when developed India looks back, it will look upon his role as a turning point and not as a person who tried hard and failed. <\/p>\n

Update:<\/b>
Part 3: This is India’s moment but it’s only a moment, can we grasp it? <\/a> <\/p>\n


Next we should be alert to what the critics of reform are doing where they are in power. In New Delhi, the CPI(M) shouts against even the slightest attempt to reform-for instance, privatise-a public sector unit, they bring woe upon anyone who may say that repeated revival attempts having failed, such and such firm has to be shut down. <\/p>\n

But in West Bengal the state government has already shut down two state-owned units, it is disinvesting 10 more. It’s just that the state government does not talk of “disinvestment”, it says it is just turning the firm over to a joint venture partner! <\/p>\n

Remember Ajit Jogi’s hysterics over Balco? Remember his threat “Should anyone from Sterlite enter Chattisgarh, we will break his legs”? Since then his refrain is “`Sterlite is scripting the success-story of Chattisgarh”! More important, he is today the leader in public sector reform! Including privatisation! The Indian Express reports he has already closed thirty seven public sector units. <\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect some people are not going to like this. Please do read everything<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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