Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Mapping the Journey of Policy Reform with a Policy Reformer
Ideas of India
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The Importance of Expert Committees in India
I was very impressed with the way the committee system worked. I think it's the first time in any committee in India that I made the point that look, if you want to promote exports, you must get rid of the import substitution. This elementary point had not been made in any government document before. Dr. Singh could well have got these chaps together and said, look, let's do it. But he set up the idea of setting up committees. He knew what we needed to do on the bank but setting up a committee, bring more people on board, put their report forward then you're able to say that you're doing something about tax reforms. Like Raja Chale
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