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Ambani groups gain Rs 90k crore on UPA mandate
PTI
MUMBAI:
The Ambani brothers -- Mukesh and Anil -- have emerged among the biggest
beneficiaries of the people's mandate in favour of the
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government as their group companies added close to Rs 90,000 crore of wealth in
just five trading sessions after the results were declared.
While
market valuation of the Anil Ambani group rose by over 35 per cent, that of the
companies belonging to the group led by elder brother Mukesh improved by over 12
per cent, against an overall market appreciation of close to 20 per cent during
this period.
As a result, the nine listed companies of the two groups
together accounted for about 12 per cent of the total gain in the overall
investors' wealth, measured in terms of total market capitalisation of all the
listed entities.
In absolute terms, Mukesh Ambani group recorded a
bigger gain of over Rs 44,000 crore, against a gain of about Rs 43,800 crore for
the Anil Ambani group.
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In five trading sessions between May 18 and May 22 -- after
results of the general elections were declared on May 16 -- the overall investor
wealth rose by about Rs 7,51,000 crore -- from Rs 38,07,000 crore to close to Rs
45,60,000 crore.
Markets were closed on May 16 and the next day
because of weekend holidays and the first trading after the election results was
held on May 18.
Since the poll outcome came in favour of a second
term for the UPA government to be headed by Manmohan Singh, the Ambani groups
together have seen their market cap rise by over Rs 88,000 crore -- from about
Rs 4,84,500 crore before the announcement of the election results to close to Rs
5,73,000 crore now.
Separately, the collective market-cap of three
Mukesh Ambani group firms -- Reliance Industries, Reliance Petroleum and
Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd -- has increased to close to Rs 4,07,000
crore.
At the same time, the total market-cap of six Anil Ambani
group firms -- Reliance Communications, Reliance Capital, Reliance Power,
Reliance Infra, Reliance Natural Resources Ltd and Adlabs Films -- has increased
to about Rs 1,66,400 crore.
Among the companies from the two groups,
the biggest rise in terms of percentage terms has been recorded by Reliance
Capital, the market cap of which has surged by over 52 per cent during this
period.
But in absolute terms, Reliance Industries has recorded the
biggest gain of close to Rs 37,000 crore. RIL is the country's most-valued firm
with a market-cap of about Rs 3,43,500 crore.
In the Anil Ambani
group, Reliance Communications is the most-valued firm with a market-cap of
close to Rs 65,000 crore.
None of the companies from the two groups
saw a decline in their market-cap during this period.
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Obama, Manmohan Singh agree Indo-US ties ”very important”
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Chicago/New Delhi, Nov.12(ANI): The strategic
relationship between India and the United States, which was put in
place through the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement is
likely to be enhanced further during the Obama regime.
This is the indication given by US President-elect Barack
Obama during a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh on Wednesday morning, when he described the bilateral strategic
relationship is a “very important partnership”.
Both also agreed that their respective governments would work together on all important global issues.
Official sources said that Dr.Singh, who has just
returned from official trips to Oman and Qatar, congratulated Obama on
his victory and said his success would be an inspiration for the
oppressed people all over the world.
He also told Obama that ties between the two countries were “very good” but “we should not be satisfied with the status quo”.
Singh invited Obama and his wife Mitchelle to visit India
and conveyed his best wishes for the success of the Obama
administration in meeting challenges that face the world.
Wednesday’’s
conversation between the leaders of the world’’s oldest democracy and
the largest democracy finally put to rest rumors of Obama snubbing
Singh that were circulation the whole of last week.
Singh also sought to put this rumor to rest when he told
reporters on board Air India One while returning from Oatar that there
was snub on part of Obama. He said then that the timing of the
telephone call was yet to be worked out, and that he would be more than
happy to talk to Obama. (ANI)
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Monsoon reaches Kerala 7 days in advance! Economists Expect a PUSH while US President, the Chairperson of Global Zionist Manusmriti Apartheid Hegemony Calls the KING SINGH to Note Washington Dictations! India buys US debts worth $38.2 bn in just one year! Meanwhile,India's veteran Congress party
leader Pranab Mukherjee takes over as finance minister at a time when
Asia's third-largest economy faces slowing growth, worsening public
finances, falling exports and massive job losses.
Mukherjee, 73, has decades of
experience in governance and was the foreign minister in the previous
government. He also held temporary charge of the finance ministry when
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent heart surgery in January.
During a speech to present the interim budget in February, Mukherjee
called for raising spending to shield the economy from the global slump
and stem job losses.
Veteran politician Pranab Mukherjee, hailed as one of the five best Finance Ministers in the world in 1984, will re-enter the North Block as Finance Minister of the new Congress-led UPA government. Pranab Mukherjee, the kayastha Brahmin from West Bengal completes the AXIS of TRI IBLIS Satanic ORDER as well as leads it.
Other members are Lal Krishna Adwani, the OPPOSITION Leader for Floor Adjustment and Understanding to make it an INFINITE CONTINUITY, the Scientific ETHNIC Cleansing in a FARCE of Parliamentary Political System, and the Marxists Face of the Ruling Brahaminical Hegemony Comrade Buddhadeb Bhattachary.
Since Power Sharing Quarrel Continues Naked, the Reality Show would ENTERTAIN the DYING, Starving Masses thanks to Toilet Media while the IMPLEMENTATION of Shudrayan, Mass DESTRUCTION Agenda gets Momentum with a HUMAN FACE of RESISTANCE Co Opted, Fire Brand Bengali Grass Root leader Ms Mamata Bannerjee as Railway Minister!
US president Barrack Obama on Saturday called Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to congratulate him on his second term in office and asked
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schedule an early visit to the US.
The prime minister urged Obama to
visit India and the US president said that this was a priority for
him.
Both leaders stressed the need to take bilateral relations
further and continue the close engagement between the two
countries.
As the recession-hit US economy is groping in the dark over uncertain
financial position, India has increased its exposure to American
by over three-fold to $ 38.2 billion till March compared to the year-ago
period.
The emerging nation's investment in the US debt stood at $
11.8 billion in March 2008.
According to the data from the US
Treasury Department, India has bought American debt instruments worth $ 38.2
billion till March 2009.
Interestingly, India's exposure to US debt
has surged by about $ 20 billion since October 2008, when the ongoing financial
turmoil turned for the worse. The world's largest economy was rattled by the
then-famed Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy in
mid-September.
Considered to be one of the safest investment bets,
India had invested $ 18.3 billion in October 2008 in the American securities,
which soared to $ 38.2 billion in March.
Among the foreign countries,
neighbouring China has the highest investment of $ 767.9
billion.
Japan, the world's second largest economy has invested $
686.7 billion in US debts till March 2009.
The American economy
officially entered into recession in December 2007 and has contracted at a rapid
pace in the previous two quarters.
In the first three months of this
year, the US GDP shrank 6.1 per cent, whereas it had declined 6.5 per cent in
the December quarter.
Though corporates, banks and other financial
institutions can purchase the bonds, in the case of India, the Reserve Bank
accounts for large part of the lending.
On the other hand, the number of bank
failures in the US are rising almost every week, reflecting the weak financial
situation. More than 46 banks have been closed since September 2008 and a
majority of them are small and regional lenders.
The US authorities
has come up with many measures, including the $ 700 billion rescue package and
plans to mop up toxic assets worth nearly $ 1 trillion from the financial
system, to revive the economy.
Meanwhile, Dick Cheney was a formidable backroom operator during his eight years as vice-president in the Bush administration. Having abandoned his short-lived retirement in Wyoming, he is now leading the Republican charge against Obama from the front.
Ahead of taking charge, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is understood to have held an informal meeting with the senior officials in the ministry and discussed issues relating to preparation of the Union Budget.
The board of Reliance Infrastructure, promoted by the Anil Ambani group, on Sunday approved issuing up to 43 million preferential shares to its founders and other investors to raise about Rs.4300 crore ($913 million).
South-west monsoon, crucial for the cultivation of kharif crops, today reached Kerala a week ahead of its normal date, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
"The south-west monsoon has reached Kerala," IMD Director B P Yadav told.
Monsoon rains are key for cultivation of kharif crops which account for nearly 60 per cent of the farm output of the country. A good kharif season augurs well for a range of goods and services.
The weather office had earlier forecast that monsoon would reach Kerala between May 23 and 25. The normal monsoon onset date over Kerala is June one.
Most parts of the state have been receiving widespread pre-monsoon showers, creating the mood of the arrival of the rainy season, known in local parlance as "Kalavarsham".
Yadav said monsoon was expected to advance further in the next few days in Kerala and the northeastern parts of the country.
Weather scientists are keeping a close watch on the low pressure area currently lying over east-central Bay of Bengal which is expected to intensify into a cyclone.
In such a case monsoon may play a disappearing act over peninsular India as the cyclone would suck away moisture over the region and weaken the monsoon system.
Meanwhile,Madhav Kumar Nepal, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal-unified Marxist Leninist was elected Prime Minister unopposed on Saturday.
Nepal's election as the Prime Minister was announced in the constituent assembly by speaker Subhash Nembang after representatives of 22 out of 24 parties represented in the house extended their parties support. The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists boycotted the election proceedings.Nepali Congress leader and former Prime Minsiter G P Koirala had proposed Nepal to succeed Prachanda who quit three weeks ago in protest against President Rambaran Yadav reinstating army chief R Katawal who the Prime Minister had sacked.
Mukherjee is a veritable encyclopedia on Congress movement and has been a minister in all the party governments since the mid-1970s, save the Rajiv Gandhi government between 1984 and 1989. The eternal 'number two', Mukherjee was a trusted lieutenant of late Indira Gandhi under whom he was the powerful Minister of State for Revenue during the emergency and later became a full-fledged Finance Minister between 1982 and 1984.
Pranab performed UNPRECEDENTED Turnaround from Indira`s Social Reforms to Economic Reforms dictated by Global Illuminati and LPG Mafia Ruling India!
Economists expect a push to reforms by newly-appointed Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who they said is the right person to head the important ministry. S M Krishna, former Karnataka Chief Minister and a surprise inclusion in the Union Cabinet, was made the new External Affairs Minister and Mamata Banerjee given Railways in partial allocation of portfolios in which veterans Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram have been retained in Finance and Home Ministries respectively.
US President Barrack Obama has extended an invitation to
Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh to visit Washington during a
conversation on Saturday night. He also congratulated him on his re
election as premier.
Earlier, Obama described Dr.Singh as a wise man and expressed his intention to visit India soon.
Indian Prime Minister shared very warm relationship with
Obama’’s predecessor George W bush and a good chemistry seems to be
building up with Obama.
During the telephonic conversation on Saturday both
leaders also recalled their warm meeting in London on April 2 and
discussed their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-India relations and
work together to address common global challenges, such as the economic
downturn, climate change, and counterterrorism.
With Indo-US civil nuclear deal as a cornerstone the
strategic relationship between the two countries peaked during the last
five years. Despite the apprehensions raised by UPA coalition partner
Left parties which have ideological differences with the US, Dr Singh
steered the relations smoothly.
The mains reasons why New Delhi has become even more
valued partner for Obama in the current times because India is playing
a crucial role in his Af Pak policy as a regional contact partner, In
these difficult times of economic stress Washington also see great
potential in the field of nuclear energy in India and is also
bidding for the big ticket 40 billion dollars defence deal which
includes the purchase of 126 fighters planes ,this deal is touted as
one of the world’’s biggest current arms deals.
The two leaders are expected to meet on the margins of July G 8 summit that is going to take place in Italy.
India's new finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Saturday he would take steps to protect the economy from the adverse impacts of the global slump and promised to return the country to a high growth path. Growth is expected to slow to less than 7 percent in the year to April 2009 from rates of 9 percent or more in the previous three years. It is seen slowing further to about 6 percent in 2009/10.Often described as a man for all seasons and seen by his party as a trusted trouble shooter, Mukherjee's first task would be to present the budget for 2009-10 and continue the measures to boost the economy reeling under the impact of global financial crisis. As author of the interim budget for the current fiscal, it would be easier for him to prepare the full budget for the fiscal and ensure continuity in the economic policies and programmes.
The government is required to get the budget passed by Parliament by July 31 as the vote-on-account (which allows government to withdraw money from Consolidated Fund) sought in the interim budget comes to end on July 31.
In the allocation of portfolios by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, A K Antony stays in Defence and Sharad Pawar Agriculture Food, Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, ministries they had handled in the previous UPA government.
Singh, who had taken 19 ministers in his new Cabinet, had told reporters at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday that portfolio distribution would take two-three days.
However, surprisingly the limited allocation of portfolios was announced by the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Saturday on the advice of the Prime Minister, who preferred to get down to business and distributed ministries on which there are apparently no differences.
Portfolios for Ministers including Kamal Nath, Kapil Sibal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jaipal Reddy, Anand Sharma and new entrants like Veerappa Moily and C P Joshi are yet to be announced.
These ministers may get their portfolios once the likely expansion of the Union Council of Ministers takes place on Tuesday as expected. So far only six portfolios have been distributed.
"Major economic issues have to be addressed, and various efforts will be made to insulate the economy from the adverse impact of the financial meltdown," Mukherjee told reporters outside his house after he was appointed finance minister.
He gave no details but he said in February spending might have to be increased to shield the economy from a global slump and stem job losses.
India's Congress-led coalition government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sworn in on Friday after winning a decisive mandate in a geneRal Election this month.
Besides Mukherjee, Singh named Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, another Congress party stalwart, to be the new foreign minister at a time of mounting instability in neighbouring Pakistan.
The Congress-led coalition has a stronger Parliamentary majority than the previous administration, meaning the government could last its full five-year term and focus on policy issues without the pressures of a fragile coalition.
Unfettered by its former leftist allies, Congress is likely to push reforms such as raising the foreign investment limit in insurance and opening up the pension sector to spur growth in Asia's third-largest economy.
"Excellent! (on Mukherjee being named as Finance Minister) He is a very experienced person and is the right choice for the job. Mukherjee is a reform-minded person and I expect economic reforms to go forward during his tenure," ICRIER Director Rajiv Kumar said.
"Mukherjee had held various other portfolios so it will be an added advantage", he added. Commenting on appointment of Mukherjee as the Finance Minister, former Chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Suresh Tendulkar said, "He is an experienced person for the finance portfolio".
On the possibility of the new minister expediting economic reforms, he said, "that's what everyone expect." Mukherjee, who was the first one to take oath of office after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will have to present the budget for 2009-10, which will spell out the policies and priorities of the new UPA government. Talking to reporters after being named as the Finance Minister, Mukherjee had said the government would endeavour to present the budget in due time to avoid uncertainties.
Economic think-tank NCAER Senior Fellow Rajesh Shukla said, "He is very mature and I see reform to go forward during his tenure." Shukla added, Mukherjee has expertise in various fields as he had headed various ministries and so he is the right person for the finance portfolio. Mukherjee, who was holding charge of the finance portfolio in the earlier UPA government presented an interim budget in February in view of the general elections for the 15th Lok
Sabha.
On Saturday, Mukherjee was named India's Finance Minister while former Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna took charge of the Foreign Ministry as the Prime Minister allotted portfolios to six of his 19 cabinet ministers, a day after taking oath at the head of a new Congress-led government.
Mukherjee, who after a gap of 25 years became the Finance Minister in the previous UPA government, had little opportunity to excel. It was an additional charge for the External Affairs Minister after the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram was shifted to Home Ministry.
The only significant thing he did as the Finance Minister was to present an interim budget for the outgoing government. As Finance Minister in the 80s, he was the boss of the present Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was then the Governor of Reserve Bank of India. Although many thought he would become Prime Minister in 2004, Congress president Sonia Gandhi nominated Manmohan Singh for the responsibility.
Again the top constitutional post is said to have eluded him during the Presidential election in 2007 when Left parties reportedly favoured him but the Congress chose Pratibha Patil.
The 73-year-old leader from West Bengal, who took to politics under the tutelage of late Ajoy Mukherjee of the Bangla Congress, had briefly gone out of the Congress in the mid-1980s in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination.
After his reported brush with Rajiv Gandhi, who took over from his mother in 1984, Mukherjee made an exit from Congress and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress – only to merge it with the parent party again in the last years of the former Prime Minister.
From an obscure village in West Bengal's Birbhum district, Mukherjee has risen to become the number two in the corridors of power in Delhi shaping government policies and programmes.
He played an important role in Congress allying with the Trinamool Congress to inflict a humiliating defeat on the CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal.
Mukherjee, who mostly made it to the upper house since 1969 when he first became a Rajya Sabha member, was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from Jangipur constituency in Murshidabad district in 2004. He repeated the feat in this elections widening the victory margin to over 1.26 lakhs, from 34,360 in 2004.
He became the Deputy Minister of Industrial Development at the Centre for the first time in 1973 and went on to serve as Minister of State and Cabinet Minister.
Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.
As Union Commerce Minister, Mukherjee contributed significantly to the negotiations leading to the establishment of the World Trade Organisation. For some time, during the 1990s he had held the dual charge of External Affairs Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.
During the previous stint of the UPA government, as External Affairs Minister Mukherjee played a crucial role in negotiating the nuclear deal with the US and improving India's ties with it, besides mobilising world opinion against Pakistan after the terrorist strike in Mumbai.
He also functioned as the leader of the 14th Lok Sabha. Apart from his assignments in the government, he played a significant role in the Congress as a member of CWC, the highest policy-making body of the party, as treasurer, general secretary, member of central election committee and the central parliamentary board of the party.
He was appointed president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress in 1985, 2000 and again last year when the PCC chief fell ill.
Widely travelled, he led several delegations to important conferences abroad and in the UN General Assembly. Educated at Vidyasagar College, he began his career as a teacher and a journalist and was associated with publications like Desher Dak (Call of Motherland).
Mukherjee has authored several books including Midterm Poll, Beyond Survival, Emerging dimensions of Indian Economy, Off the Track, Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice and Challenge before the Nation.
He was a trustee of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad and president of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan. He also served as the chairman of the Planning Board of the Asiatic Society, from 1984-1986 and during 1992-96.
Still fixated on Bengal...
The Statesman Kolkata reports:
DELHI, 23 MAY: Expectations of good governance from the ministers from
the Trinamul Congress went for a six after party chief and Union
Railways minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee announced today these ministers
will stay for five days in the state and attend office at the capital
for two days every week.
These ministers will stay in the state to attend to the needs of the
people as some of the party workers are still being attacked in the
city, at Raina in Burdwan and other places in the state, she said,
explaining her stand.
To stand by the embattled party activists is our first priority now,
the newly appointed minister said. The ministry is nothing to me and
and the state is all I have, Miss Banerjee, who reached Kolkata from
New Delhi tonight, added.
Miss Banerjee had earlier indicated that there could be six more
ministerial berths for her party in the first expansion of the Manmohan
Singh ministry.
She also said she would take charge of the Railways ministry only after
her party colleagues were sworn in as ministers of state ~ party
sources clarified that this wasn’t pressure tactics of any sort, but a
gesture of solidarity.
Miss Banerjee maintained that while striving to achieve commercial
growth of the Railways, she would also ensure that its “humane” face is
not lost. She said she would issue Rs 50 monthly passes for students
and Rs 20 passes for vendors, people from the unorganised sector and
those coming under BPL.
On West Bengal, Miss Banerjee dubbed the Left Front government as 'non
working' and said she did not expect any cooperation from it. “The
sooner this government goes the better,” she told a Bengali television
channel.
A grand homecoming for Mamata
Staff Reporter
| “I want to work for Bengal and its people,” says the new Railway Minister |
— PHOTO: AFP
emotional WELCOME: A supporter tries to touch the
feet of Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, as she returns home
in Kolkata from New Delhi on Saturday.
KOLKATA: It was a grand homecoming for the new Railway Minister
Mamata Banerjee on Saturday. Hundreds of people waited patiently for
hours outside the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here
and at her residence to catch a glimpse of the leader.
Though celebrations here began on Friday following the swearing-in
ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Trinamool supporters made special
arrangements to welcome her.
They smeared green vermilion on one another, distributed sweets,
burst crackers, sang, danced and beat drums throughout the day to
celebrate Ms. Banerjee’s appointment as Railway Minister.
Though she had served as a Union Minister in two stints, it was
special this time — the Trinamool has created a record of sorts by
winning 19 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the otherwise Left
Front-dominated West Bengal.
Party supporters and people went berserk as Ms. Banerjee, along with
the battery of 17 MPs (two MPs had returned earlier), came out of the
airport terminal in the evening. “I want to work for Bengal and its
people” — this was all she said here.
Thanking all those who have supported her in the elections, Ms.
Banerjee said people have stood firmly against the “atrocities” of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Ms. Banerjee said that both she and the other six MPs of the party,
who would take oath as Ministers on May 26, would spend at least five
days a week in the State for working towards the development and
welfare of its people.
Top railway officials were present at the airport to greet her.
Amid tight security cover, she was escorted to her own car, as she
preferred not to board the one kept ready for her by the railway
officials. She had to alight once to accede to her supporters’ request
for a ‘closer look’.
All along the way to her residence at Kalighat, people waited at
several points to greet her and showered flowers on her. Closer to
home, she had to leave her convoy behind and walk her way through the
narrow alley that leads to her home amidst cheers, sloganeering and
flag waving by party supporters.
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Though there was no official word on the discussions DMK President M Karunanidhi held with senior party leaders collectively and individually through the day, reports said his son M K Azhagiri, grand-nephew Dayananidhi Maran and A Raja are likely to be inducted as Cabinet Ministers.
DMK Rajya Sabha member and Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi may get into the council of ministers as an MoS with independent charge while three others from the party would be inducted as MoS.
Amidst reports that she may not join the Government, Kanimozhi told reporters that "I have not opted out".
Reports doing the rounds are that Raja may get IT and Communication, Azhagiri Chemicals and Fertilisers and Maran Textiles. Kanimozhi is likely to get Women and Child Development.
DMK sources said they were hopeful of a solution latest by tomorrow. More ministers are expected to be inducted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday.
India slips in corruption index: Transparency International
Corruption in India has increased marginally in the last two years, taking its position from 72 to 85 in the list of world's corrupt countries, according to global watchdog Transparency International.
The Corruption Perception Index, prepared on the basis of surveys conducted in 180 countries by 13 international agencies associated with Transparency International, puts India's integrity score at 3.4 as against 3.5 in 2007.
India and China were at par last year in the corruption index. But this year, China's position is 72.
Pakistan with 2.5 integrity score has been ranked at 134 in the list.
The integrity score is prepared by a mathematical calculation by a Switzerland-based professor on the basis of the findings of the surveys on governance.
"India's position has gone down from 72 last year to 85 this year. India's integrity score has fallen from 3.5 in 2007 to 3.4 this year, indicating that corruption has marginally increased in the country," R H Tahiliani, Country Chairman of Transparency International, said.
He said electoral and political systems in India were the major sources of corruption.
"In our electoral system, huge money is spent by political parties for winning elections. This money comes from mainly corrupt practices," he said.
Denmark has emerged as the top country with 9.3 integrity score, indicating that corruption level was the lowest there followed by New Zealand, Sweden and Singapore.
Countries like Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia have recorded lowest scores with less than 1.5, he said. The level of corruption is perceived to be rampant in these countries.
Now, Lalit Modi wants two IPLs every year
London With the Indian Premier League proving a smashing hit in its adopted home in South Africa, the organisers of the Twenty20 razzmatazz are mulling a second and shorter version of the event in the same calendar year at an overseas location.
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi told 'The Daily Telegraph' that the success of the second IPL has prompted the organisers to explore untapped territories like United States and Canada and the League's Governing Council would discuss the issue after the tournament ends in Johannesburg on Sunday.
"The potential is huge," Modi said.
"We have turned the challenges and adversities in moving to South Africa into an opportunity. It is fans who determine if you are successful or not and they have come out in force here. It has shown that the tournament can be in any region, in any country. This opens up many different opportunities for us," Modi was quoted as saying by the daily.
The IPL mastermind made it clear that India would host the first season and it's only for the second season in the same calendar year that a foreign destination would be considered.
"The IPL will be based in India, but the second season we are planning gives us the chance to see if a market exists and we are seriously looking at what we can do with it," Modi said.
"America throws up challenges but the format we have developed works. It is an opportunity for families to spend a day out. Apart from watching great cricket they have an enjoyable evening out. That will work anywhere," he said.
"Before this tournament we did not know if we could do it. But we do know now. We have to satisfy an appetite across the world and build a fan base across the world," Modi added.
Modi said the Indian cricket board (BCCI) would be in touch with its English and South African counterparts but ruled out the prospect of any country hosting back-to-back events.
"We will talk to the England and Wales Cricket Board, and South Africa are natural allies who want us to come back every year. The public and the boards want us but it is not realistic to come back to the same place every year."
While a second IPL in the same calendar year jeopardises Test cricket's survival, Modi beg to differ.
"People who say we cannot work alongside Test cricket just don't understand. You don't need everyone available all the time. You don't need all countries to be free. In England the Premier League runs at the same time as the Spanish and Italian leagues. We can do the same. They can run concurrently. To do that we must showcase and produce our own stars," Modi said.
"England are playing the West Indies now so those teams are out but not Australia, South Africa or uncapped England players. That is where the misunderstanding is taking place," he added.
Young India sees politics as a management challenge
24 May 2009, 0113 hrs IST,
Meenakshi Natarajan, TNN
A year
ago when Rahul Gandhi embarked on his mission to democratize the Youth Congress
and NSUI, with the idea of attracting youth to politics,
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have said for sure that he would be successful. And yet, youth is the flavour of
the season today. In the wake of the Congress Party’s spectacular
performance in the 15th Lok Sabha elections, youth is at the core of our
national discourse.
The world
missed the significance of our baby steps in democratizing the Congress’s
youth organizations. Everyone wrongly assumed young Indians were allergic to
politics and change. But they are eager to be active agents of
change.
The election results
are scant evidence of the chord Rahul has struck with youth with his attempts to
throw open political parties to the next generation. In the last few months, we
held elections for our youth organizations in Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Punjab.
The result was the new vigour seen in GenNext during the Lok Sabha elections
— they took up campaigning in big numbers and turned out in hordes to
vote. They seem to have backed Congress with great
enthusiasm.
It is the young who
can — and will — change the country and the way it is run. The basic
problem arises from the simplistic assumption that the young are averse to
“dirty politics”. The urban middle class may be cynical about
politics but in the rural heartland there are 5.5 lakh panchayats and several
lakh young men and women serving as panchs, sarpanchs and as members of zilla
parishads. According to a rough estimate, 70% of these elected representatives
are no older than 35.
Surely
that is evidence enough to show that the young are interested in entering the
system to change their village communities? If the urban young are apathetic
about politics it is largely because of the system’s penchant for
political institutions, the closed-door functioning of political outfits and the
special status given to politicians. These are all negatives factors and breed
revulsion among ordinary
people.
The philosophy and
purpose of Rahul Gandhi’s internal democratization of the NSUI and Youth
Congress was opening them up to the common people. This has created a feeling
within the new generation that there is a clean way of getting into politics and
moving into leadership positions. At the moment, many young politicians belong
to political families and the positions they get are passed down as legacies.
There’s nothing wrong with that but there should be equal opportunity for
others too if they want it.
It
is not a small change. It would open up politics to all, making it possible for
ordinary people to compete with the privileged few. Some may try to discourage
the change, but it will happen. Ours is a long-term vision but the results of
this election are encouraging, particularly because we saw huge youth
participation in our campaign and the voting
process.
I went to Mandsaur in
Madhya Pradesh to contest the election. I was a first-timer in the big,
challenging world of electoral politics. But the experience was phenomenal.
Throughout the campaign, I would get scraps on my Orkut profile and phone calls
from boys and girls who would introduce themselves as first-time voters who had
cast their ballot in my favour. It was a very satisfying experience — the
flight of hope among those who possibly would not have taken to it with such
gusto had they not seen change coming into the closed, 60-year-old world of
politics.
Through
Congress’s philosophy of equality, India’s young will change the way
politics is perceived in this country. Politics and elections are seen as an
ideological challenge, but young people see it as a management challenge. As the
young enter politics, real issues will come to centrestage and the possibility
of their own being able to participate in the process would cement their faith
in the philosophy of equality, opportunity and
change.
It will be a boon for
society as it will undercut the school of political thought that promotes
divisiveness. As we gain acceptability, there will be copycats. That would be
good because they will be following our path.
But this may be hard for those
whose politics is based on parochialism. Divisive politics marginalizes the
youth it seeks to exclude. Youth participation in such parties will decline.
Simply put, divisive ideology is antithetical to greater youth
participation.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Special-Report/Young-India-sees-politics-as-a-management-challenge/articleshow/4570440.cms
Inside the mind of Rahul Gandhi24 May 2009, 0338 hrs IST, Shobhan Saxena, TNN |
Call it
software politics. After buttons on the EVMs are pressed, data from the machines
fed into the national network, votes dissected on 24x7
Rahul studied in St Stephen's College in Delhi, Harvard, Rollins College in Florida and finally Trinity College. (TOI Photo) |
pundits proven wrong, the young man responsible for the grand old party’s
near-decisive victory is sitting quietly on the backbench, showing no emotion.
He betrays neither the joy and
relief of victory nor the strain of possible responsibilities in the future. The
Cabinet position has been declined, at least for now. With the dust of the
election battle settling, the party reins have been handed back to mother. So,
what’s on Rahul Gandhi’s mind now? What has he been thinking the
past couple of years, when he metamorphosed from dimpled poster-boy for dynasty
to Congress’s campaigner-in-chief? How does he
think?
Not politics so much
perhaps, as management. Masters at Doon School, his father’s alma mater
and his own from 1981 to 1983, remember him as a “quiet, shy boy”.
One of the masters who tutored Rahul during his stay at the school’s
Kashmir House recalls, “He left the school as quietly as he came. He was
grandson of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, but he rarely talked about
politics.”
Rahul went on
to St Stephen’s College in Delhi, Harvard, Rollins College in Florida and
finally Trinity College. He collected many degrees along the way and perhaps a
philosophy of management as well. It was at Harvard that he studied under
Michael E Porter whose ‘Five Forces Analysis’ — a business
development strategy — seems to have influenced Rahul in a big way.
Porter’s model analyses the forces “that affect a company’s
ability to serve its customers and make a profit”. The theory insists that
if an industry is attractive, every firm doesn’t have the same
profitability. “Some firms are able to apply their core competences,
business model or network to achieve a profit above the industry average”.
Replace Porter’s ‘industry’ with politics and
‘firms’ with parties and the analysis works well in the jumble of
Indian coalition politics.
It
probably helps that Rahul has been employed in something other than Indian
politics. After his Cambridge M Phil, he worked as a consultant with
Porter’s Monitor Group in London for three years. That was where he honed
the management and analytical skills that people now say with post-election
hindsight make him a good politician. But Sam Pitroda, his father’s old
colleague and head of the Technology Mission predicted this when Rahul entered
politics in 2004: “He has worked under Michael Porter for four
years...Rahul is methodical, analytical, mature and sincere... He is extremely
intelligent and at ease with cyber technology...”
Rahul’s buddies and
aides say he has transferred his management skills to the Indian countryside in
the year-and-a-half that he has been on a ‘Discovery of India’ tour.
Jitin Prasada, Congress MP, says, “Rahul has an innate belief in the
strength of rural India. When British foreign secretary was taken to Amethi, it
was not as was charged by rivals to mock the poor, but it was to show the
strength of rural India. He goes out to villages, connects with people and sees
the reality himself. And then he analyses and conceives ideas through that
first-hand experience, not by closed-door ideating in Delhi. That is his
originality”.
Fawning
politicians and pundits alike admit Rahul’s way of thinking is clear from
all that he has done at the grassroots in Amethi. “He has a vision for
the future. Rahul always thinks and talks in long terms,” says Kalyan
Singh Gandhi, AICC member from Rae Bareli and long-standing family confidante.
Singh describes Rahul’s management philosophy seen at first hand. He
created a network of workers across Amethi — 16 blocks, 160 nyaya
panchayats, 750 gram sabhas and a samooh pramukh for a cluster of 50 homes.
“He organized a camp for all the workers and they were trained by top
management experts from Mumbai and abroad on how to reach out to people. The
samooh pramukhs are supposed to look after the people all the and take care of
all their needs — from water to pension to help in
marriages”.
Now, Rahul
plans to replicate the Amethi model, where he has 9,000 active party workers,
across the country. But some say the plan is merely a marketing strategy.
“It’s really credible the way the Congress marketed itself in the
past two years. But, it’s just marketing. Where are the results for the
people?” says Ranjan Chaudhary, a Dalit and IIM-Lucknow graduate who quit
his MNC job in Melbourne to join Rahul’s core team in 2004. “He has
many good ideas but no clarity on how to go about it,” says Chaudhary, who
left Rahul’s team last year and contested a UP seat as a BJP candidate.
“He has no place for emotions. It’s only management”.
True or not, the management
guru is reaping rich dividends.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Special-Report/Inside-the-mind-of-Rahul-Gandhi/articleshow/4570454.cms
'84 budget was precursor to Manmohanomics24 May 2009, 0048 hrs IST, TNN |
The finance minister's job is one
that's hardly new to Pranab Mukherjee. He first held the portfolio in 1982 in
Indira Gandhi's cabinet and went
Pranab Mukherjee with the 1983 budget papers. (TOI Photo) |
last of them in 1984.
The economic policy paradigm then was
obviously very different from what we have today, but the 1984 Budget had in
some sense anticipated quite a bit of the reforms that were to sweep the Indian
economy in less than a decade.
Bimal Jalan, a man who has been RBI
Governor and has headed the prime minister’s economic advisory council,
had told TOI on the eve of Mukherjee's interim Budget in February this year: "It
(the 1984 exercise) was a landmark budget initiating much of the reforms in
indirect taxes, simplification of the tax structure and making the process
taxpayer friendly."
Recalling the context, Jalan said the adverse
impact of a high tax regime in the past made the government think of reforms.
One of the highlights of the 1984 budget, therefore, was the proposal to split
the initial tax slab and give some relief for those coming under the Rs
15,000-20,000 bracket.
Mukherjee had also proposed that "the ceiling
of standard deduction be increased from the present Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000". The
relief resulted in a revenue loss of Rs 35 crore for the government in a year,
which may not seem like much today, but was a reasonable sum of money a quarter
of a century ago.
That year was, like the current one, a bad year for
the country's economy. Blighted by a drought and poor crops in the two preceding
seasons, the prospects were bleak. The FM acknowledged: "The gross domestic
product this year will be lower than in the two previous years." It is more than
likely he will echo the same sentiment this year.
The GDP growth rate
then was less than 5%. It would be alarming if it goes that low this year. He
will have to bring to bear all of that personal experience as well as his
undoubted erudition to the task of steering the economy out of the choppy waters
it now finds itself in.
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Sikh organisations to mark 25 years of Operation Bluestar24 May 2009, 1309 hrs IST, IANS |
MRITSAR: Sikh organisations,
including some radical ones, are all set to evoke the painful memories of the
Indian Army's storming of the Golden
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heavily armed Sikh extremists.
The Akal Takht, the highest temporal
seat of the Sikh religion, the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC)
and Sikh radicals are already planning events at the temple complex, where the
holiest of Sikh shrines Harmandar Sahib (popularly called Golden Temple) is
located, here in the first week of June to coincide with the 25th anniversary of
Operation Bluestar, the army's codename for the operation.
Indian
Army units had used heavy artillery against the terrorist militia, led by the
separatist preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, holed up inside the shrine
complex. Hundreds of people inside the shrine, including Bhindranwale and his
armed supporters, and army and police personnel lost their lives in the battle.
The main function, on June 6, will be held at the Akal Takht. The
building, which faces the Harmandar Sahib, was heavily damaged in Operation
Bluestar.
Despite the passage of 25 years, Operation Bluestar
remains etched in the minds of Sikhs as the darkest chapter in the recent
history of the community.
Then prime minister Indira Gandhi, whose
government in New Delhi gave the order for the army to use all means to flush
out terrorists from the Golden Temple complex, was killed by her Sikh bodyguards
at her residence on Oct 31, 1984 in a reprisal crime.
The army had
faced stiff resistance from the terrorists inside the complex.
The
SGPC, the mini-parliament of the Sikh religion that manages Sikh shrines in
Punjab, will hold its main function at the Manji Sahib hall of the temple
complex.
"We are making preparations for the event this time. We
will add more events this year. The main function will be on June 6. We want the
function to be held well and go off peacefully," SGPC president Avtar Singh
Makkar said.
Asked if radical leaders would be allowed to take
centrestage and raise separatist slogans, as has happened before, Makkar said:
"We have seen that such elements raise Khalistan slogans at the end of the
function. Though our volunteers are there to prevent them, sometimes they manage
to do this."
Makkar said he did not have confirmation whether or not
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Akali Dal President and Deputy
Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal would attend the function.
Getting more hardline, the SGPC had recently brought out its annual
calendar with the photograph of the Akal Takht being shown badly damaged in the
June 1984 attack.
The use of the photograph by the generally
moderate SGPC, which is dominated by Punjab's ruling Akali Dal, was a clear sign
that the organisation was looking at cosying up to radical elements in the
community in the run-up to the recent parliamentary elections.
"We
are trying to ensure that the SGPC involves all Sikh organisations in the events
being held. Sikh bodies will be holding their individual events at the Golden
Temple complex and other places in the first week of June," radical Sikh body
Dal Khalsa's leader Kanwarpal Singh said.
The Khalsa Action
Committee (KAC), a committee of various radical organisations, recently held
various events to make people aware of its version of what led to Operation
Bluestar and how it left the Sikh community scarred.
Organisations
like Dal Khalsa and Damdami Taksal are upset with the SGPC, saying it is doing
nothing to set up a memorial to those who lost their lives inside the shrine
complex during Operation Bluestar.
"The SGPC has already passed a
resolution to have a memorial inside the Golden Temple complex. It only needs to
implement that. But it is under pressure from the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party,
alliance partner of the Akali Dal in Punjab) not to do it. We cannot make it
outside as it will not justify the sacrifice of the martyrs. Inside the shrine
complex, the SGPC has control," Kanwarpal Singh said.
There are
plans to bring out a directory of names of all those who were killed inside the
shrine during Operation Bluestar. Many innocent civilians, who were stranded
inside the shrine on June 2 when the army moved in, were also killed during the
operation.
Every year, the first week of June is observed as
'ghallughara" (genocide) week.
Though terrorism in Punjab
(1981-1995) ended many years ago, the anniversary of the Golden Temple attack is
observed by radical Sikh organisations every year.
Railways offer $2.7 tn investment opportunity: BNP Paribas
PTI
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways sector
offers an investment opportunity of a whopping Rs 2.7 lakh crore over the next
five to eight years, a report
| |
"Opportunities in the Railway
sector are close to Rs 2.7 trillion over the next five to eight years, of which
the Rs 800-900 billion will be awarded in the next two years," global financial
services provider BNP Paribas said in a report.
Trinamool Congress
chief Mamata Banerjee has been appointed as the Railway Minister in the second
term of UPA government led by Manmohan Singh. In the last government Lalu Prasad
was the Railway Minister and was credited for a major turnaround story at Indian
Railways.
The BNP Paribas report further said that out of the entire
outlay Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project, which envisages construction of
2,800 kms of rail corridor spanning seven states poses the largest investment
opportunity of Rs 68,000 crore.
The maximum length of the corridor
would be in Uttar Pradesh of about 37 per cent and the total land required is
12,500 hectares. Other areas of opportunities include station modernisation,
port connectivity, gauge conversion, rolling stock and logistic parks.
The Railway budget for 2009-10 has earmarked Rs 37,900 crore as
compared to Rs 36,773 crore for 2008-09 revised estimates. However, land
acquisition is the most significant challenge, which could delay project
implementation, BNP Paribas analysts said in the report.
Other key
challenges highlighted by the industry representatives were related to inability
of Indian players to execute projects on a turnkey basis due to obsolete
technologies. "Shortage of trained engineers and suppliers is another
impediment. However, these impediments may not materially affect the overall
investment rationale," the report added.
Specifically, for
engineering and construction (E&C) companies, opportunities lie in
programmes such as the DFC, station modernization and the civil works of the
logistic parks, which may roughly be half of the total size of the respective
programmes.
Further, the report believes that there is a great
thrust on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model for implementation of the
proposed programmes, and this form of partnership is expected to contribute 17
per cent of the estimated investments required.
The cooperation
between the public and private could be in various forms such as special purpose
vehicles, joint ventures, build-own-transfer (including the annuity model),
build-own-operate-transfer and build-own-operate models, it added.
100-days agenda faces 'tight' Budget 22 May 2009, 0037 hrs IST, Rajeev Jayaswal & Gireesh Chandra Prasad, ET Bureau | ||||||||
NEW DELHI: The government’s plan to kickstart an ambitious 100 days’ reform programme after Manmohan Singh and his team take oath on Friday is
against the constitutional propriety of getting parliamentary approval for any new item of expenditure. That means the Budget. Presenting, discussing, debating and passing the Budget could take time. If the Budget cannot be passed before July 31, not just the grand 100-days programme, even routine government expenditure would run into trouble. As a safeguard against such a situation where the government finds itself without the authority to spend money, the finance ministry has initiated moves to put together a second vote-on-account, which would authorise the government to make routine expenditure till September 30. The finance ministry has written to all government departments to indicate their spending needs for the two months between July 31, when the authorisation of the last vote-on-account passed on February 16 expires, and September 30. While a new government takes 45-70 days to present a budget, getting it passed typically takes longer. A recess, during which Parliament standing committees will discuss the various Budget proposals, follows the presentation of the Budget. Then, Parliament convenes again to debate and pass the Annual Finance Bill. Now, the big question is if this entire process can be completed before July 31? If the Opposition agrees to reduce the time taken for debate, this can be done. However, taking no chances, the finance ministry has initiated moves for a second vote-on-account, according to a senior government official. The Constitution doesn’t allow the government to make new investments or launch new schemes without Parliament approval. Article 115 (1)(a) allows supplementary, additional or excess grants if “the amount authorised by any law made in accordance with the provisions of Article 114 to be expended for a particular service for the current financial year is found to be insufficient for the purposes of that year or when a need has arisen during the current year for supplementary or additional expenditure upon some new service not contemplated in the annual financial statement for that year.” Government rules define ‘new service’ as referring to expenditure arising out of a new policy decision, not brought to the notice of Parliament earlier, excluding a new activity or a new form of investment. Finance secretary Ashok Chawla on Wednesday hinted at the incoming government having to seek an interim vote-on-account to carry on the business of administration if it fails to present a full Budget before August. “The interim budget, as it has been approved by Parliament, will operate till the end of July. Till then, the government has the ability to carry on expenditure. If the new Budget is not ready till then, we will have to go for another vote-on-account to carry on work for a short period after that,” he had said. | ||||||||
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Mainstream, Vol XLVII, No 23, May 23, 2009
Global Challenges before the New Government
by Bharat Jhunjhunwala, 23 May 2009
The
chances of a new Congress Government being formed have increased with
the party emerging as the largest and even crossing the magic number of
272 with its allies. The most important challenge before the new
government will be to deal with the continuing global recession. The
present thinking is that the Indian economy will look up along with the
Western economies. Thus Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, declared his
intention to walk side by side with the Western countries at the G-20
meet months ago. However, this policy fails to capture the immense
possibilities that the present recession opens up for India.
Present thinking ignores the fact that rise of India
and fall of Western economies are two sides of the same coin. Truly, we
are the cause of their troubles today. Western companies are unable to
compete with our low-cost high-quality products. For example, the
American company, General Motors, plans to import more cars from its
production facility in China instead of manufacturing them in Detroit
because of high wages at home. The natural result is the decline of the
American economy. The situation was different earlier. Western
countries were exporting high-tech goods at high prices and earning
huge profits. They were paying high wages to their workers from this
income. That is no longer possible because Indian companies have
started making similar high-tech goods. For example, our companies have
rolled out semi-hybrid cars to compete with the Western hybrid cars. My
assessment is that the decline of Western economies will continue for a
considerable time because their high wages have become unsustainable in
view of the developing countries catching up technologically.
The stimulus packages being implemented by these
countries may provide some temporary relief for, say, six months but
not help in the long run. Their governments are printing notes and
generating domestic demand artificially. They will have to collect
taxes in future to pay for the present spending. At that time their
problems will become much worse. A company running in loss due to high
wages of its workers can delay closure for only some time by taking
loans. Similarly, these economies can delay their troubles by
implementing stimulus packages only for a short time. General Motors
has had to increase imports from China despite getting assistance from
the US Government under the stimulus package. In this situation it will
not help us if we wait for revival of the Western economies to
jump-start our exports.
The problems of foreign investment are similar. It is
true that much foreign investment has come into India during the last
15 years when the Western economies had been roaring. But times have
changed. Western economies were strong till recently. Western
multinationals were investing profits earned in their home economies in
the emerging markets. For example, General Motors would make profits in
America and invest in India. This will not happen when their economies
are declining. But, that does not mean that all global capital has
evaporated. Investors like pension funds and George Soros are still
seeking opportunities for investment. My assessment is that they will
turn towards India. Global investors turned away from Britain and moved
in droves towards the United States at the end of the Second World War.
Similarly global investors will turn away from the US and move towards
emerging economies now.
The challenge before the new government is to adopt
policies in tune with this changing ground reality. Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh agreed to walk together with the Western countries at
the G-20 summit a few months ago. India has bought US Treasury bonds
after the summit to help the United States survive. This means that
India endorses the present asymmetry in the world economy where 20 per
cent people living in the Western countries consume 80 per cent of the
world resources. The challenge before the new government is to break
this asymmetry. This will require active cooperation with China,
Russia, Brazil and other developing countries to make a joint front
against the dominance of the Western countries. We should try to
increase exports to these emerging economies instead of trying to
revive exports to the Western countries. We should try to stop the
outflow of our wealth through hawala and other routes to the Western
countries instead of seeking more investment from them.
¨
Another challenge is to face the restrictions on
outsourcing being imposed by the Western countries. My assessment is
that these restrictions will boomerang upon them. American companies
resort to outsourcing because they find labour cheap in India and that
helps them lower their cost of production and remain competitive in the
world economy. Restrictions on outsourcing will force American
companies to employ high-wage American workers instead of low-wage
Indian workers. This will lead to higher cost of production for their
goods and they will be priced out of the global market. For example,
Japanese carmakers will be able to outsource their chores to Indian
outfits while American carmakers will not be able to do this. Truly,
America is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Allowing
outsourcing will lead to loss of jobs. Restricting it will impose
losses upon American companies. The only solution is to lower the wages
of their workers. Ultimately the American workers will have to accept
wages similar to those of the Indian workers. Alas! No Western leader
is willing to tell this hard truth to his people. Thus, they will
impose restrictions on outsourcing which are populist in nature and
push their economies into deeper trouble.
The new government must make a strategy to face this
impending contraction in demand for outsourcing services from global
businesses. The cost of production of Western companies will increase.
We must turn this into an opportunity. Western companies are presently
exporting goods like computer servers, patriot missiles, aircraft, and
the like. These goods will become expensive with restrictions on
outsourcing in place. We must try to make these high-tech goods and
export into the global market. The government can establish a new
public sector undertaking to do this.
The third challenge is to create a new world currency
to replace the dollar. Presently we are providing money to the US for
creating foreign exchange reserves. The Reserve Bank of India is buying
US Treasury Bonds for this purpose. The US is using our money against
our interests. For example, the United States has told Indian companies
not to do business with Iran. The US is able to do this because India
is providing it with money to keep afloat. The developing countries
must make an alternate world currency and shift their reserves from the
US dollar into the new currency. China and the ASEAN have already taken
the first steps in this direction under the Chiang Mai Initiative.
India must join them and give the final push to the collapse of the
dollar. The new government must change policies in keeping with these
changing ground realities.
In the same section
- Election 2009 : The People For Ever
- ‘Major Hindrance to Democratic Movement among Sri Lankan Tamils has been Removed’
- Rise and Fall of Prabhakaran
- The West Bengal Verdict
- Not that Fair
- Communist Parties have Let Down the People in Kerala
- Deepest Condolences to Satyapal Dang
- Has the Congress earned Dividend from the NREGA?
- On Varun Gandhi, BJP and Advani
- Global Challenges before the New Government
Mainstream, Vol XLVII, No 23, May 23, 2009
Global Challenges before the New Government
by Bharat Jhunjhunwala, 23 May 2009
The
chances of a new Congress Government being formed have increased with
the party emerging as the largest and even crossing the magic number of
272 with its allies. The most important challenge before the new
government will be to deal with the continuing global recession. The
present thinking is that the Indian economy will look up along with the
Western economies. Thus Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, declared his
intention to walk side by side with the Western countries at the G-20
meet months ago. However, this policy fails to capture the immense
possibilities that the present recession opens up for India.
Present thinking ignores the fact that rise of India
and fall of Western economies are two sides of the same coin. Truly, we
are the cause of their troubles today. Western companies are unable to
compete with our low-cost high-quality products. For example, the
American company, General Motors, plans to import more cars from its
production facility in China instead of manufacturing them in Detroit
because of high wages at home. The natural result is the decline of the
American economy. The situation was different earlier. Western
countries were exporting high-tech goods at high prices and earning
huge profits. They were paying high wages to their workers from this
income. That is no longer possible because Indian companies have
started making similar high-tech goods. For example, our companies have
rolled out semi-hybrid cars to compete with the Western hybrid cars. My
assessment is that the decline of Western economies will continue for a
considerable time because their high wages have become unsustainable in
view of the developing countries catching up technologically.
The stimulus packages being implemented by these
countries may provide some temporary relief for, say, six months but
not help in the long run. Their governments are printing notes and
generating domestic demand artificially. They will have to collect
taxes in future to pay for the present spending. At that time their
problems will become much worse. A company running in loss due to high
wages of its workers can delay closure for only some time by taking
loans. Similarly, these economies can delay their troubles by
implementing stimulus packages only for a short time. General Motors
has had to increase imports from China despite getting assistance from
the US Government under the stimulus package. In this situation it will
not help us if we wait for revival of the Western economies to
jump-start our exports.
The problems of foreign investment are similar. It is
true that much foreign investment has come into India during the last
15 years when the Western economies had been roaring. But times have
changed. Western economies were strong till recently. Western
multinationals were investing profits earned in their home economies in
the emerging markets. For example, General Motors would make profits in
America and invest in India. This will not happen when their economies
are declining. But, that does not mean that all global capital has
evaporated. Investors like pension funds and George Soros are still
seeking opportunities for investment. My assessment is that they will
turn towards India. Global investors turned away from Britain and moved
in droves towards the United States at the end of the Second World War.
Similarly global investors will turn away from the US and move towards
emerging economies now.
The challenge before the new government is to adopt
policies in tune with this changing ground reality. Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh agreed to walk together with the Western countries at
the G-20 summit a few months ago. India has bought US Treasury bonds
after the summit to help the United States survive. This means that
India endorses the present asymmetry in the world economy where 20 per
cent people living in the Western countries consume 80 per cent of the
world resources. The challenge before the new government is to break
this asymmetry. This will require active cooperation with China,
Russia, Brazil and other developing countries to make a joint front
against the dominance of the Western countries. We should try to
increase exports to these emerging economies instead of trying to
revive exports to the Western countries. We should try to stop the
outflow of our wealth through hawala and other routes to the Western
countries instead of seeking more investment from them.
¨
Another challenge is to face the restrictions on
outsourcing being imposed by the Western countries. My assessment is
that these restrictions will boomerang upon them. American companies
resort to outsourcing because they find labour cheap in India and that
helps them lower their cost of production and remain competitive in the
world economy. Restrictions on outsourcing will force American
companies to employ high-wage American workers instead of low-wage
Indian workers. This will lead to higher cost of production for their
goods and they will be priced out of the global market. For example,
Japanese carmakers will be able to outsource their chores to Indian
outfits while American carmakers will not be able to do this. Truly,
America is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Allowing
outsourcing will lead to loss of jobs. Restricting it will impose
losses upon American companies. The only solution is to lower the wages
of their workers. Ultimately the American workers will have to accept
wages similar to those of the Indian workers. Alas! No Western leader
is willing to tell this hard truth to his people. Thus, they will
impose restrictions on outsourcing which are populist in nature and
push their economies into deeper trouble.
The new government must make a strategy to face this
impending contraction in demand for outsourcing services from global
businesses. The cost of production of Western companies will increase.
We must turn this into an opportunity. Western companies are presently
exporting goods like computer servers, patriot missiles, aircraft, and
the like. These goods will become expensive with restrictions on
outsourcing in place. We must try to make these high-tech goods and
export into the global market. The government can establish a new
public sector undertaking to do this.
The third challenge is to create a new world currency
to replace the dollar. Presently we are providing money to the US for
creating foreign exchange reserves. The Reserve Bank of India is buying
US Treasury Bonds for this purpose. The US is using our money against
our interests. For example, the United States has told Indian companies
not to do business with Iran. The US is able to do this because India
is providing it with money to keep afloat. The developing countries
must make an alternate world currency and shift their reserves from the
US dollar into the new currency. China and the ASEAN have already taken
the first steps in this direction under the Chiang Mai Initiative.
India must join them and give the final push to the collapse of the
dollar. The new government must change policies in keeping with these
changing ground realities.
In the same section
- Election 2009 : The People For Ever
- ‘Major Hindrance to Democratic Movement among Sri Lankan Tamils has been Removed’
- Rise and Fall of Prabhakaran
- The West Bengal Verdict
- Not that Fair
- Communist Parties have Let Down the People in Kerala
- Deepest Condolences to Satyapal Dang
- Has the Congress earned Dividend from the NREGA?
- On Varun Gandhi, BJP and Advani
- Global Challenges before the New Government
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1380.htmlMukherjee the ‘Deliverer’ Takes Over as Indian Finance Minister
By Cherian Thomas
May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Pranab Mukherjee earned a reputation
as a trouble shooter in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s cabinet
since 2004 by resolving spats among ministries and coalition
partners. Now he’s got the job of reviving the economy.
The 73-year-old Congress party veteran was appointed
finance minister yesterday, a position he has been acting in
since January as Singh, 76, recovered from surgery. He held the
defense and then the foreign portfolio for the bulk of Singh’s
first term.
Mukherjee, who ran a closed economy as the finance minister
in Indira Gandhi’s cabinet from 1982 to 1984, inherits one that
is now open and exposed to the global recession. He has called
for “accelerating” reforms in banking and insurance to make
the economy more competitive and accelerate growth.
“He is a deliverer,” said Alastair Newton, a political
analyst at Nomura International Plc in London. “He will have
challenges in the economic portfolio given the political
realities -- market expectations are high.”
The Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark stock index surged by
a record 17 percent on May 18, the first day after Singh’s re-
election, as investors bet the resounding victory will enable
the new finance minister to ease foreign investment rules and
sell state assets -- policies that were stalled by Singh’s
communist partners in his previous term.
Congress has the support of 322 lawmakers in the lower
house of parliament, with the party getting 206 lawmakers of its
own. That’s the most since 1991, when Singh as finance minister
abandoned Soviet-style state planning and introduced free-market
policies that have helped India’s economy quadruple in size.
‘Strong Endorsement’
The victory was as much Mukherjee’s as Singh’s. As the No.
2 in the cabinet, he backed the prime minister’s policies
ranging from creating jobs in rural areas and writing off
farmers’ loans to closer ties with the U.S., renewing a
relationship that began in the early 1980s when he appointed
Singh as the central bank governor.
“Despite the strong endorsement from voters, the finance
minister may have a tough job pushing through some much-needed
reforms,” said Nikhilesh Bhattacharyya, an economist at Moody’s
Economy.com in Sydney. “It’s very hard for politicians, for
example, to do away with subsidies, which may result in a
backlash. Expectations should be tempered.”
India spends one trillion rupees ($21 billion), or a tenth
of its budget, on food, fuel and other subsidies each year in a
country where the World Bank estimates three-quarters of the
people live on less than $2 a day. About 13 percent of spending
goes to defense and 20 percent to pay interest on national debt.
That leaves little for other needs, such as health, education
and power plants, boosting borrowings.
Ballooning Deficit
The federal government budget deficit was at 6 percent of
gross domestic product for the year ended March 31, more than
double the target of 2.5 percent of GDP.
Moody’s Investors Service places India’s long-term local
currency rating at Ba2, two levels below investment grade, and
lower than the ratings assigned to Colombia, Romania and
Kazakhstan. S&P has a BBB- long term credit rating on India, the
lowest investment-grade level.
Investors will be looking at how much fiscal stimulus
Mukherjee, who was on the boards of the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank in the 1980s, can provide in his first
policy statement -- the budget for this year -- expected in
early July.
Singh’s government said before the elections that stimulus
of at least another 1 percent of GDP is needed to prop up an
economy that’s growing at its slowest pace since 2003.
Policy Conflicts
Mukherjee, who first became a minister in 1973, estimated
in February that India may need to raise a record 3.62 trillion
rupees from bond sales in the fiscal year that started April 1.
The central bank governor Duvvuri Subbarao said May 22 that
borrowings have “already expanded rapidly” and that it goes
against his efforts to keep borrowing costs low.
“The government faces a challenge to balance two
conflicting issues -- to stimulate the economy while preventing
fiscal position from further erosion,” said Takahira Ogawa,
S&P’s director of sovereign ratings. “There is a possibility
for the government to implement various measures to further
expand the economy and consolidate the fiscal situation.”
Singh’s administration, which doesn’t need communists’
support for a majority in parliament, could raise as much as $20
billion from sale of state-run companies, according to Rashesh
Shah, chief executive officer of Edelweiss Capital Ltd.
Asset Sales
Among the companies that could be placed on the block are
NHPC Ltd., India’s largest producer of electricity from water,
explorer Oil India Ltd. and fuel retailer Hindustan Petroleum
Corp., according to Mumbai-based brokerage Religare Capital
Markets Ltd.
Still, analysts such as Seema Desai at Eurasia Group, a
London-based political-risk advisory firm, expect economic
changes will be “selective and gradual.”
“There is a significant segment within the party that is
suspicious of sweeping pro-market reforms,” Desai said.
Mukherjee, who last year successfully rallied China, Japan,
Russia and 42 other nations to end India’s nuclear isolation and
resume supplies without signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, needs to bring the same acumen to gain support of his
party colleagues, many of whom are still tied to the original
socialist principles of the Congress party.
At stake is a bill to raise the foreign investment ceiling
for Prudential Plc and other insurers to 49 percent from 26
percent, and other proposed legislation aimed at removing a 10
percent cap on the voting rights of foreign investors in non-
state banks. The government also wants to allow global retailers
such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. into India.
“Mukherjee is a seasoned politician with excellent skills
to bring people around,” said N. Bhaskara Rao, chairman at the
Centre for Media Studies in New Delhi. “Expectations from him
will be high.”
To contact the reporter on this story:
Cherian Thomas in New Delhi at
Cthomas1@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: May 23, 2009 21:01 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ahfsPj3QdjNI&refer=india
Thomson Reuters
India to protect economy from global slump - finmin
05.23.09, 09:35 AM EDT
NEW DELHI, May 23 (Reuters) - India's new finance minister said on
Saturday that efforts will be made to protect the economy from the
global financial downturn.
'Major economic issues have to be addressed, and various efforts will
be made to insulate the Indian economy from the adverse impact of the
financial meltdown,' Pranab Mukherjee told reporters soon after he was
named to the post.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/05/23/afx6459372.html
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| Result is a game-changer: India Inc, market players |
| BS Reporter / Mumbai/new Delhi May 17, 2009, 0:04 IST |
As
the results started pouring, the mood in business circles turned
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United Progressive Alliance managed a decisive majority in the Lok
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