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Manufacturing

01 May, 2019

Policy Tracker: How top state-run companies performed during Modi regime

In April last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked public-sector undertakings (PSUs) to come up with a roadmap to build ......

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Finance

24 April, 2019

Policy Tracker: Did PM Modi's FDI reforms manage to lure foreign investors?

Just a few months after taking charge as the head of the first majority government in nearly three decades, Prime ......

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TMT

17 April, 2019

Policy Tracker: Startups still waiting for govt fund to show them the money

The goal was fairly straightforward: incentivise entrepreneurship and generate employment across sectors by making it simpler to start a business ......

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TMT

16 April, 2019

Policy Tracker: Shake-up in telecom during Modi era as Jio rings in big changes

In September last year, the government unveiled the National Digital Communications Policy to replace the telecom policy of 2012. The ......

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Infrastructure

09 April, 2019

Policy Tracker: How Modi govt's housing push, other moves shook up real estate sector

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s November 2016 decision to demonetise 86% of the currency in circulation brought large parts of the ......

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Finance

03 April, 2019

Policy Tracker: How demonetisation changed the face of bank credit in the Modi years

India’s gross bank credit -- a barometer of the economy’s health -- grew 13.1% between January 2018 and the first ......

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Healthcare

29 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Ayushman Bharat aside, how has the Modi govt fared on healthcare?

In September last year, the Narendra Modi government launched what was touted to be the world’s largest health insurance scheme. ‘Ayushman ......

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Economy

27 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Why Indian students seem to be getting the rough end of the stick

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made some ambitious promises in its manifesto for the 2014 general elections. One notable pledge ......

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Consumer

22 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Tourists are flocking to India, but that's not the whole story

Earlier this week, Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc. announced that it was acquiring Hotel Leelaventure Ltd’s luxury hotels for $576 ......

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Manufacturing

18 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Did PM Modi's 'Make in India' really make any difference?

Soon after becoming prime minister in May 2014, Narendra Modi unleashed a policy blitzkrieg of sorts. Among the ambitious schemes ......