Ignoring small businesses and public service delivery a big mistake for government

Forget the notion that the government has recently produced an avalanche of reforms. The word 'reform' is being misused to cover everything from irrelevant fiddling to minor changes, to selling the family silver (in the shape of spectrum or minority stakes in public sector undertakings). Raising the price of diesel by Rs 5 per litre is no reform at all, just an arbitrary revision with no underlying principle. Decontrol of petroleum products, supplemented with specified subsidies for targeted people, would certainly be true reform, but nobody is talking about that. 

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