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Fiscal deficit for 2020-21 was pegged at 3.5 per cent of GDP in Budget 2020. But Covid and the lockdown have made sure this is impossible to achieve.

If patients wish to change a healthcare provider, they have to carry pieces of paper. NDHM envisions changing that by digitally storing their health records.

RBI has accepted bankers’ demand for one-time loan restructuring instead of extending the moratorium as a way of countering the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Government participation in the market should be the exception, and not the norm. The latest bid to disinvest is a step in the right direction.

Central govt has removed numerous restrictions in various sectors of the Indian economy, and unlike the 1991 liberalisation, states have also chipped in.

With gradual resumption of supply chains, inflation may come down. Data has also been limited by the lockdown, so the MPC should wait before changing rates.

If India can put in a proper regulatory system, it stands to gain enormously as a producer and exporter of traditional herbal medicines.

There have always been questions over who controls cooperative banks in India, states or the Centre. The ordinance empowers RBI to intervene in failing banks.

The govt hasn’t done away with APMCs but given farmers the ability to sell outside mandis. Arguments that the ordinance violates the Constitution are flawed.

Farmers can lock in prices and buyers for their produce even before the harvest, and intermediaries can be assured of supply and price at the time of harvest.