The most important thing is to view it as a historic opportunity. It is the first major economy-related reform of the Constitution that has happened. It is also an opportunity to create a 21st century tax system.
Tag: Vijay Kelkar
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Infrastructure | A Travesty of Partnerships
We need to improve our infrastructure, and if someone asked, by when, the obvious answer will be yesterday! According to a study by S&P Global Ratings, the country´s poor infrastructure is the biggest hurdle to the government´s ´Make in India´ programme, and they went on to add that the infrastructure deficit is costing the nation up to 5 per cent of our GDP.
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Revisiting Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
The private sector brings with it the benefit of private funding of the projects and efficiency of operations. ´Public-Private Partnership´ (PPP) has been a relatively flourishing model for infrastructure development in India.
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Happy New Infrastructure!
Clearly, the government had saved the best for the last, with a flurry of policy decisions at the year end. Infrastructure is clearly in for better times in 2016. The year 2015 was generally a positive one for the economy, although bumpy.
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2016 – An Infrastructure Leap Year
United Nations General Assembly has declared 2016 to be the year of ¨pulses¨. With pulse prices going sky-high in 2015, another source of protein for the poor people has well-nigh gone out of reach in our country.
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Report of Kelkar committee on PPP model released
The Union Ministry of Finance on 28 December 2015 released the report of the Committee on Revisiting and Revitalising Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model.
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Need of the Hour: Quick Dispute Resolution
PPP contracts, like any other contract, have several terms and conditions which govern the parties to the contract. Dispute Resolution Clause determines what a dispute is, when disputes arise
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Exploring New Directions
With a view to analysing the Kelkar Committee Report on domestic fuel production, we critically consider certain recommendations in Part I of the Committee´s Report.
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Spreading equitability
The more developed among our states must now focus on development that is both inclusive and as uniform as possible.