Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna, professor Amartya Sen is a votary of the Food Security Act. However, when asked whether he is proposing fiscal deficit to find the money for food security, the answer was "no".
CNBC-TV18's Ronojoy Banerjee learns that owing to proposals to remove customs duty on urea equipments and reduction of interest rate paid by manufacturers to government on foreign loans to 5%, the fertilizer department may have overestimated the cost assumptions in the urea policy.
While most analysts expect a rate hike pause by the RBI, here is one person who thinks otherwise. Speaking to CNBC-TV18 in an exclusive interview, Dr. Shankar Acharya of ICRIER says that the RBI is left with no choice but to hike rate, given the loose fiscal policy we have.
Fertilizer secretary Sutanu Behuria said the CoS had not submitted their report yet and expected the same to come within the next two months. "We have looked at two models but we had some reservations on its implementation. Thus, we are trying to do a few changes and see what we come up with."