The union government’s role and the prices announced by the vaccine makers raises far too many disquieting questions. What is the total cost to the government of vaccinating everyone in India? The calculation is...
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Prosenjit Datta
Three Pieces of Advice for the Government
The Finance Minister would do well to keep these basic principles in mind It is the job of opinion writers to give advice to the government. It is the prerogative of the government to ignore them. Before any budget...
The Pre Budget Podcast 5 – Direct Tax Questions
In this episode, Himanshu Sinha, who leads the tax practice at Trilegal gives his views on what is possible on the direct tax front, why he remains bullish about tax collections, and also why the Covid cess is the...
The Pre Budget Podcast 4 – The Agriculture questions
The Finance Minister’s allocations for agriculture and her proposals for the sector will be keenly watched in the upcoming Budget. Anand Ramanathan, Partner of Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, Editor in...
The Pre Budget Podcast 3 – Fixing the Economy
Sanjay Kumar, Partner and National Public Policy Leader of Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, Editor in Chief, Prosaicview to discuss what the Budget can do to speed up the recovery and put India back on a sustained...
The Pre Budget Podcast 2 – All About Taxes
Anil Talreja, partner, Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, editor in chief of Prosaicview to discuss the tax changes that might come in the first Post Covid Budget to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala...
Hobson’s Choice
The state of the government’s finances leaves no real option but to go for second generation reforms The daily rise in fuel prices makes the government seem both clueless and callous when crude oil is at a record low...
Bad Data and Policy Making
Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the...
Wasting a Lockdown
The first 21 days have been frittered away by the Union government. The remaining period should be utilised properly. Whether India should have imposed a national lockdown when relatively few cases of Coronavirus had...
Lockdown Diaries1: Flotsam and Jetsam
The lockdown was announced without the slightest plan about what to do about the poor and the homeless and the migrant labour 26 March 2020: Two days into the lockdown – five days really given that most states had...
