From the archive record
In the month of blossoms and fragrance, the summer heat is building up at the Capital North Block the office of India's Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and as India's man of the moment preparing to unveil the nation's annual budget next week for the fifth consecutive time. The motive force of the country's reform programme finds himself tugged by the onward push of economic liberalization and the backward full of political populism in this crucial year preceding the general elections. Apex Industrial Organizations and business leaders feel that the Finance Minister faces his toughest tests in giving a human face to his policies an orientation that should neither hurt the pace of liberalization nor the interests of the people at large as far as I understand this government they are not