A Few Pats On The Back
- Growth rates are zooming, and manufacturing is in a tearing hurry to catch up
- Unproductive spending is under control. So is inflation, and the year may end well under 5 per cent.
- Exports and non-oil imports going up at record rates, and even a $50 million trade deficit seems okay
- Job scheme, if a success, will be the greatest political strategy for the Congress
...And A Few Raps
- Industrial growth (IIP) is slowing, delayed oil price corrections hit government and oil companies
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FRBM targets frozen, welfare plans to pressure fisc till 2009
Flexible labour market still a long way off; power sector reforms untouched-
Education schemes galore but real education neglected
Health scores deplorable, child mortality rate one of the worst in the world
