A major energy company honcho says emphatically that Montek must be disheartened, collecting the medals of his imminent defeats. “There is too much politics that fuels government decisions, too much voter-appeasement an economist like him must hate,” he says.
It is now Montek Singh’s eighth year as head of the planning commission and it is a measure of both the calibre of the man and the power that flows from his friendship with the PM that he has turned what was once a low-voltage job into one of the most powerful and contentious positions in the country.
“India is witnessing phenomenal economic growth, but for the overall development of the country, efforts also should be made to improve the human development index,’’ said deputy chairman of the planning commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
