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Move fast on decisions, end policy paralysis: Ambani to govt
PremiumChairman and MD of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani attends the opening plenary session of the World Economic Forum, India Economic Summit, in Mumbai. Photo: Reuters
Mumbai: Lauding the private sector’s role in driving India’s economic growth, country’s top industrialist Mukesh Ambani on Sunday urged the government to move faster in its decision making and put to rest any notion about policy paralysis due to political constraints.
He also called for a dramatic shift in the governance model for better partnership between the government and the private sector in delivering more value to each other, and the society at large.
He said the private industry has now become a driver, from a facilitator, of India’s economic growth.
“I think there is a mismatch. We are both heading to the same direction and sometimes, like you have seen in the United States (US) and Europe, that’s the price of democracy, but we shouldn’t put a thing by saying that because the institutions of democracy are there, we will be paralyzed.
“And because there is an opposition and a party in power, we would do nothing. That’s what worries me," he said, while urging for a minimum agreement to deliver on the expectations of the people.
Ambani, head of India’s largest corporate entity Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and the country’s richest person, also acknowledged that the government was taking steps in that direction.
Paralysis in policy decisions and government inaction on important economic issues has been a matter of debate in the recent past, with many industry leaders seeking urgent steps from policy-makers to tackle the problem.
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