Adding Up to Zero ; in Its Five Years at the Centre, the United Progressive Alliance Government Persevered for Just One Goal: Survival. Here's a Rating for Its Key Ministers.
Business Today › March 25, 2009
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Five years is a long time to transform a sector, give it a new direction. Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram had demonstrated this in the early 1990s.
How many sectors appear transformed since 2004? Not many. Aside from the notable exceptions Lalu Prasad who had the Railways turned around and Praful Patel who pulled off a sea change in air travel which too seem a result more of the ministers' personal ambitions than the imperatives of good governance. The rest of the Dream Team, it appeared, did not even bother with step one: envisage blueprints for changes. The few to have one Chidambaram unsuccessfully strived for some sensible policy push failed to make any headway. Singh's resolve and statesmanship was reserved exclusively for the nuclear deal.See the full content of this document
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Adding Up to Zero ; in Its Five Years at the Centre, the United Progressive Alliance Government Persevered for Just One Goal: Survival. Here's a Rating for Its Key Ministers.
UPA's surprise over gaining the seat of power prevented a game plan for governance from falling into place. In the end, in terms of policy reforms, India is not poised any better than it was five years ago.
Raghuvansh PrasadThe EmpowererThe Rural Development Minister's tireless efforts i...See the full content of this document
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