Pranab Mukherjee On Economic Reforms

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  India Has Shown World it Won't Delay Reforms, Says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

  The cabinet has approved an executive order on Wednesday to implement coal and insurance reforms, underlining the administration's resolve to push through economic measures despite political opposition in Parliament.

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  Modi's Economic Roadmap Wins Praise, May Boost Cyclicals

  Markets have run up on expectations of reforms and optimism about a recovery in the domestic economy. The new government's economic roadmap for the next five years, outlined by President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday, seems to have gone down well with the Street.

• President Shares Economic Reform Agenda of Modi Government

  India's new government pledged on Monday to make the revival of the flagging economy its "paramount" target as it laid out its legislative agenda following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's landslide election victory.

• Pranab Mukherjee elected president, reforms expected now

  Pranab Mukherjee, former finance minister, won the presidential election to become India’s 13th head of state. He got a vote value of 5,58,194, crossing the required half-way mark of 5,25,140 after counting of votes in half the states was over. Analysts now want Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to launch a wave of reforms and reverse an economic slo...

• Full transcript: No loss of faith in the India story, Pranab Mukherjee tells NDTV

  Speaking to NDTV in Washington, on the sidelines of the annual World Bank and IMF meetings, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee acknowledges that the government's success will depend on its ability to take coalition partners along.

• UPA committed to reforms: Pranab Mukherjee

  Rejecting criticism that UPA is not serious on reforms, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the time has come for the government to take some hard decisions and expressed confidence that three key legislations on pension, banking and insurance will be passed this year.

• Implement critical reforms, GST, Industry tells Pranab Mukherjee

  Government needs to implement critical reforms, especially on the Goods and Service Tax (GST) front, industry heads and experts told Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at a meeting on Sunday.

• Budget 2012: 5 areas markets expect Pranab to focus on

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present his seventh Budget on Friday. The Budget comes in the backdrop of challenging macroeconomic (sluggish economic growth, sticky inflation, high interest rate) and political environment and it may be Pranab's last attempt to bring economic reforms back on track. That's because the next budget will be the ...

• India's Budget 2011: What was promised, what was delivered

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee made some lofty promises during his budget speech on February 28, 2011. For the most part, the government has been unable to keep its word, in part owing to the inability to pass reform in Parliament, but also exacerbated by an economic slowdown and high oil and food prices. Here is a list of projections made in in...