Page 2 - Reforms

G4 countries call for urgent measures for reform of the UN Security Council

A joint press statement said the ministers highlighted the urgency of reforming the UN and updating its main decision-making bodies, in order to better reflect contemporary realities

Farm bills are sugar-coated pills, should be voted against in Rajya Sabha: KCR

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday termed the Agriculture reform Bills as "sugar-coated pill," saying that it will do a lot of injustice to the farm sector in the country

Agri-related Bills give farmers freedom to fetch better prices: Nadda

BJP national president J P Nadda hit out at the pposition for calling the three agriculture-related Bills passed by Parliament anti-farmer

The biggest reform, or a farce in 3 Acts?

India has one of the world's largest arable landmasses, focused sunshine, and water in 40% of land, and so, if the three laws are implemented, India will be transformed

Pending agri reform

Legalisation of land leasing will help rural poor

Letter to BS: Radical reforms are being conveniently ignored by govt

Incremental and half-baked reforms are being introduced here and there

Real is radical: Drop subsidies, offer basic minimum income to farmers

You could run a sensible subsidy and price support system at a fraction of today's cost, and still have enough money left over to offer a more generous income support to all farmers, writes T N Ninan

Clean up land records: Let the financial system spearhead the change

The first step in this direction would be to start with the land that has already been collateralised in the formal financial system

Industry asks for more

But the government's economic package has a lot going for India's private sector

India's economic environment weak, needs urgent and ambitious reforms: IMF

he IMF in January lowered India's economic growth estimate for the current fiscal to 4.8 per cent

Letter to BS: Structural reforms hold the key to achieve economic goals

The demand for credit and the credit absorption capacity of the various segments are critical to boosting the supply of credit

We're committed to further reforms, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Waiting for the next Budget is by itself a delay which we did not want considering the environment which was prevailing all over the world, said Sitharaman

Why isn't manufacturing coming to India? Deficient reforms, says World Bank

Rigid land and labor laws and protectionist trade policies are hindering investment in India even though the government has made strides in improving the ease of doing business, according to the World

RCEP: By opting out of it, India shows that now it fears the world

PM Modi's decision not to join RCEP is an admission that even the prospect of joining a massive regional trade agreement isn't incentive enough for New Delhi to launch deep economic reforms.

When is a good time for austerity?

There is a time for austerity - when there is a boom

Best of BS Opinion: No time to pause, let the best people do their job

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Lack of reforms created huge NPAs in infra, power sectors, says Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today blamed the successive governments' inability to bring in reforms in the infrastructure and power sectors for the rising non-performing assets in the core segments. He said there are a number of sectors which have been impacted by the global slowdown, but some of these were hit more because of the absence of reforms. "There are at least two sectors - infrastructure and power- where we can't blame external factors. Our own inability to bring in reforms adequately in these sectors, I think, caused the difficulty (in banks books)," Jaitley told the BRICS Economic Forum here. Elaborating further, the Union Minister said that in the infrastructure sector the key problem is the inability to adequately and quickly settle the disputes. "We allowed them to pester for an indefinitely long period and now we have taken a number of steps, including amending laws, setting up faster courts, among others. I do hope we are able to get out of it," the minister

'Kerosene price hike a positive signal on reforms'

Kerosene is predominantly used by rural poor households and hence any change in price is a politically sensitive decision

25 years of reforms

Business Standard looks at the distance the country has travelled through the lens of key indicators

Reforms to cushion volatility

However, it is likely to outperform other emerging markets over medium-to long-term