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Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Mapping the Journey of Policy Reform with a Policy Reformer

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The Importance of Cross-Ministerial Look at Energy Policy

When I was deputy chairman, I made the point that energy policy is not in the realm of any one ministry. We had a separate ministry for renewable energy, solar, wind, another ministry altogether for petroleum, yet another ministry for coal. So how do you get energy policy, which is sensible? There wasn't even a mechanism to ensure the principles that were being adopted,. Let's say for petroleum pricing, were similar to the principles being adopted for gas pricing or coal pricing. Which would actually be the responsibility of several ministries.

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