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This provocative byline as a starting point is to stress the political dimension of policy in an open democratic structure. Elections as Ken Galbraith said are ‘The Liberal Hour’ and yet in spite of all the cacophony the direction in which the agenda would be pushed by actors becomes transparent to a degree. These problems cut across party lines. We would therefore like to start with the previous UPA Government and its statements before the elections it lost. We will follow it up with the NDA Governments political stance.

Some of the material used in this chapter is reproduced from the author’s papers published in Anvesak, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Business Line and Financial Express, with due acknowledgement. The editors of these journals and news magazines have given permission. Material from the authors publications in MOST, UNU and OECD has also been used.

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    A tribe of indigenous people living in Andaman Islands of India for about 50,000 years.

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    Bureau of Industrial Costs and Pricing, India.

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    Indigenous people of mainland South Asia.

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Alagh, Y.K. (2018). Policy and Future. In: Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2817-6_5

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