Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava says the industry hopes that the new government would implement policies in coordination with the states.

Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India lists out five top issues that he would like Modi government to focus on:

Increase simplicity and responsiveness of the ministries and coordinationamongst the various ministries, especially the infrastructure related ones.

Here is a quick look at Narendra Modi's cabinet.

The company has reported a loss of Rs 35.85 crore for the year 2013/14. The company had posted Rs 163.55 crore profit for the 2012/13 fiscal year. The company's total operating income fell to Rs 4,440.88 crore in 2013/14 as against Rs 4,597.04 crore in the previous year.

Five issues in the infrastructure sector that the new government needs to addres. 

Five issues that need to be addressed by the new government in the microfinance sector and for financial inclusion:

Narendra Modi needs to change the home loans prioritization, which is now 10 lakhs, to at least Rs 25 lakh for small towns and Rs 50 lakh for metro towns like Mumbai.

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of the state-owned explorer ONGC, has signed a deal with Russia's largest oil and gas producer Rosneft to jointly explore hydrocarbons in the offshore Arctic.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon on the five issues that need to be addressed in pharmaceuticals by the new Narendra Modi government:

Columbia University professor Arvind Panagariya, who is in the race for the heading the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, wants the government to step up expenditure on infrastructure even if it entails a higher fiscal deficit in the next Budget.

Going by his past decisions, the new prime minister will be pro-business but will also quickly move on headline-grabbing issues

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's delay in confirming his attendance in the oath ceremony is being attributed to opposition from hardliners in the army establishment.

Also, keeping the landmark scheme of Direct Benefit Transfer on LPG or DBTL where customers got subsidy in cash so they could buy cooking gas at market rates, was a mistake, it felt.

Two senior ministry officials told Reuters the plan would make it possible for Narendra Modi's incoming government to reduce the current year's fiscal deficit and save $4 billion in borrowing.

The Narendra Modi government is likely to harness solar power and give a fillip to development of offshore wind energy so as to provide electricity to every household in the near future, industry officials sai.

The Indian economy will grow 5 per cent in 2014 and record a slightly higher expansion of 5.5 per cent next year on stronger consumption and investment, a UN report said.

India's gold demand is likely to pick up in the second half of the year as curbs on bullion imports are expected to be eased by the country's new government, top officials at the World Gold Council (WGC) said.

Approximately 700 million people expected to migrate to cities over the next four decades. To accommodate them, India needs to create about 115 million new non-farm jobs by 2022.

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