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It is wrong to suggest that the views of experts have not been taken into account while changing the Base Year or weights or switching from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) to MCA 21, the EAC-PM said.

The Bimal Jalan committee on the appropriate capital reserves for the Reserve Bank is likely to identify an excess buffer of up to Rs 3 lakh crore, according to a foreign brokerage.

With participation of women in the workforce dropping from 32% in 2016 to 23% in 2018, the clamour for gender-sensitive policies is growing. In addition, speculation is rife that income tax sops will be rolled out.

Former CEA Arvind Subramanian said that RBI is adequately capitalised, but the money should be used for fixing the financial system, not for financing government expenditure

The government's fiscal math is off-track. It will have to do some accounting jugglery to stick to the fiscal deficit target.

RBI has managed to protect the reserves, such as currency and gold revaluation reserves, Contingency Fund, Asset Development Fund and Investment Revaluation Account

As the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s board meets today to thrash out the many differences it has with the government, one of the key points of contention is the government's alleged demand for transfer of Rs 3.6 lakh crore of the central bank's reserves to itself.  BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey talks about the three most contentious issues between the central bank and the government which are being discussed at the much-awaited meet.

One of the key points of contention is the govt's alleged demand for transfer of Rs 3.6 lakh crore of RBI's reserves to itself.

The Modi government, already backed into the corner over unemployment, absconding defaulters, rupee depreciation, fuel prices and more, would not want more bad news on the NPA front at this juncture.

Despite huge strides, the risk of stressed and stranded projects is keeping investors jittery about India's infrastructure building strategy.

The central government has constituted a five member committee for a comprehensive review of the 12 year old Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act. Senior BJP leader and former bureaucrat NK Singh will head the panel.

The Economic Survey for 2015-16, which was tabled in Parliament today, also made a case for carrying forward the reform process to achieve macro-economic stability.

Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian's mid-year analysis of the Indian economy indicates that while the country has done well in macroeconomic stability, a lot more needs to be done to boost growth and investments.

RBI's Raghuram Rajan justified the big rate cut saying that the consumer inflation was likely to be at 5.8%, below the 6% target for January.

Analysts warn that domestic stocks are overvalued and that equity markets could see a sell off of 6-8 per cent if pro-growth measures in the Budget fall short of expectations.

The government has targeted fiscal deficit of 4.1 per cent of GDP for FY 15, down from 4.5 per cent in the previous year and plans to reduce it further to 3 per cent by 2016-17.

\"To revive growth going forward, public investment may have to play a greater role to complement and crowd-in private investment,\" Subramanian said.

Mayaram has now been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs, in place of Lalit K Panwar, the Department of Personnel and Training has said.

The Finance Ministry has got a new team with Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram being transferred to Tourism and Arvind Subramanian appointed as chief economic adviser (CEA).