He wants to connect India, boost the economy, generate millions of jobs, conquer pollution and clean up the Ganga—all of it in time for the next General Election. The ambitious Union minister in conversation with Amita Shah
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley spoke to Open’s Managing Editor PR Ramesh and shared his ideas on reviving the Indian economy. Edited excerpts:
The strength of Modi is his dexterity in connecting personally with both his customers and his people
Economic growth will not revive until the Government starts investing instead of handing out subsidies
Gujarat’s growth is hard to ignore. And with India’s economy in crisis, two divergent responses are surfacing
Very few jobs were created in the past six years. But the count of job seekers has been on the decline. How come?
A new McKinsey & Co report finds that future growth for India will likely come from middleweight cities like Hyderabad and Surat, among 11 others.
All the broad-spectrum economic indices that show India forging ahead, while not wrong, are leading us away from issues that really matter