He also said the public should be made more aware of the cost and benefits of these freebies and that it is the responsibility of the government to educate the population on this.
The decision to release a white paper on the Indian economy, which strongly criticised the UPA’s stewardship of the economy, was taken very close to the interim Budget and was put together in around a week.
Sitharaman criticised the way the UPA government managed the economy after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee's NDA government
BJP government released the ‘White Paper’ on the Indian economy, highlighting both how the country prospered under 10 years of PM Modi's rule and "lost a decade" under the Congress-led UPA government
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the 'white paper' in Lok Sabha to highlight the country's poor economic condition when the Congress-led UPA left power, as often charged by the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and how the incumbent dispensation brought the turn around. Watch for more.
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The White Paper on Indian economy lambasted the previous UPA government and accused it of mismanaging the country’s economy after inheriting a healthy economy ready for more reforms
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When Prime Minister Modi took charge, the economy was on a "road to nowhere", and was showing signs of distress emanating from multiple policy "wrong turns", the white paper said.
The alleged scams such as non-transparent auction of public resources (coal and telecom spectrum), the spectre of retrospective taxation, unsustainable demand stimulus and ill-targeted subsidies and reckless lending by the banking sector, found a special mention
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The session has been extended by a day as 56 Rajya Sabha members who are retiring will be given farewell.
According to a government source, the White Paper will also be tabled in Parliament.
"The performance of any government is benchmarked on five parameters -- India's external security, the state of the economy, social cohesion, internal security, and India's relations with the world or its foreign policy. On each of the benchmarks in the past nine years, the NDA-BJP government has come up completely short," Tewari said.
Exhibitions organiser Informa Markets will host the 15th Crystal edition of Asia's largest and most prestigious expo in the RE space -- Renewable Energy India Expo 2022 -- from September 28 to 30 at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida.
The EVConIndia 2022 is being organised by the world's first sector-specific professional networking platform Blue Circle in Gurugram on July 29, a statement said.
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Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said the government should also come out with a complete list of measures that it has undertaken to check the stashing of black money in foreign banks.
"This is the third quarter since the growth rate has fallen in the country. If this is not recession, then what is it? The government must bring a white paper on the status of Indian economy," tweeted Yechury.
A team of NCHRO, the umbrella body of various human rights and civil rights organisations and activists, led by its Chairperson Prof A Marx,had last week visited Kathiramangalam, Kuthalam, Vilamal and Adiyakkamangalam, where ONGC is conducting the explorations.
The UK government today published a White Paper on the Great Repeal Bill, which will convert the EU law into British law to give businesses, workers and consumers certainty after Britain leaves the economic bloc.
Industry stalwarts come together to launch the White Paper on the emerging trends of risk management in India Risk Management Awards series. Watch videos to know the key highlights of the launch.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded a "white paper" and an independent inquiry on demonetisation, dubbing it as the "scam of all scams" even as he claimed that the reputation of Prime Minister's Office has been tarnished globally under Narendra Modi.
Singh alleged that even the Prime Minister's Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and other officials were in the dark about the impending demonetisation.
‘Someone who briefed PM Modi has been economical with the truth,‘ says Ex-Finance Minister after PM Modi remarked in a recent interview that he considered publishing a white paper on the dismal state of the economy in 2014.