Chidambaram Inflation

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  "Year-End Gifts Of Modi Government": P Chidambaram On Rise In Retail Inflation

  Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday took a swipe at the government over the rise in retail inflation and the unemployment rate, saying "let's enjoy the year-end gifts of the Modi government".

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  P Chidambaram's "My Advice" Swipe At Centre Over Runaway Inflation

  Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has criticised what he called "excess taxation" by the government in an economy that has been badly wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Central Government Directly Responsible For High Inflation: P Chidambaram

  Inflation in the country is being caused by the wrong policies of the Central government and its inept management of the economy, said Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram.

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  "3 Things To Speak ...": P Chidambaram's Advice To PM Before Delhi Polls

  With the Budget only three days away, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram hit out at Prime Minister Modi and his government this morning over the state of the economy, highlighting shortfall in tax revenues and a sharp increase in retail inflation

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  "Danger Of Youth, Students Exploding In Anger": P Chidambaram On Economy

  Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram this morning hit out at the ruling BJP over "sliding economy" after the government data on Monday showed that consumer inflation in December at 7.35 per cent was worst since July 2014. The

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  Interim Budget: What P Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee, Jaswant Singh Did

  Interim Union Budget 2019: Union Minister Piyush Goyal will on Friday present the interim budget in Parliament. This budget will be the last by the NDA government before Lok Sabha elections due by May. From a cash package for the farmer to tax reliefs for the common man, expectations are high from the annual financial statement of the current admin...

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  "Retail Inflation Hits 5-Month High": P Chidambaram Takes Dig At Centre

  Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday attacked the government for the slip in industrial production growth and said that retail inflation had hit a five-month high.

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  Economic Growth to be Lower Than 7% in 2015-16: Chidambaram

  The economic growth is likely to be below 7 per cent in 2015-16 fiscal as against the NDA government's latest forecast of 7.1 per cent, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday.

• Not all Factors Are Under Control of Any Government: Chidamabaram

  Conceding that inflation was "one of the reasons" for Congress' debacle in the Lok Sabha polls, senior party leader P Chidambaram said on Friday that the new dispensation will also soon learn that not all factors are under control of any government.

• RBI More Conscious About Both Growth, Inflation Says Chidambaram

  He said the total capital requirement for state-run banks is Rs 45,500 crore ($7.6 billion) in 2014/15 fiscal year, much lower than the Rs 11,300 crore provided for recapitalisation in the interim budget in February.

• Chidambaram will be remembered as a spoiler, says Yashwant Sinha

  Former Finance Minister in the NDA government and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today took on current Finance Minister P Chidambaram over the state of the economy and pointed out that the growth of the last seven quarters has been extremely low.

• Government to set up inflation target, RBI to implement: Chidambaram

  The comment by Chidambaram come after a Reserve Bank of India panel in January proposed moving to an inflation target of 4 percent in three years, with a 2 percent band on either side when setting monetary policy, sharply below current levels.

• Inflation views aligned with government: Raghuram Rajan

  An RBI panel last month proposed the introduction of inflation targeting into monetary policy, with the specific aim of a consumer price index (CPI) of 4 percent, with a 2 percent band on either side.

• Those against gas price hike don't know economics 101: Chidambaram

  Mr Chidambaram's criticism was aimed at former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on whose complaint an FIR was registered against Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and other officials and ministers, last week. Mr Kejriwal had asserted that Mr Ambani, Union Oil Minister Veerappa Moily and other policy-makers colluded to inflate the pric...

• Finance Minister says monetary authority must abide by government policy

  His comments follow a report from a panel set up by the central bank last month, which suggested the Reserve Bank of India should pursue managing inflation as its main policy objective.