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Factfile

  • The last decade has been all about understanding risk and responsibility.
  • Technology has empowered communities and taught them to dream and dare.
  • The reformers’ biggest failure has been in the area of basic education.
  • India has already cornered a 1.2 per cent share of the global services Trade.
  • From the official rate of 17.94 in 1990-91, the rupee is now at 47 to the dollar
  • Only two PSUS have been sold till date and twenty-seven put on the block.
  • Ncaer says 60 per cent of detergent consumed is in the rural and semi-urban areas.
  • Since 1993, FIIs have invested close to $11.3 billion in the stockmarkets.
  • Reforms fed off federalism—a weaker centre and stronger states.
  • Less than one per cent of gdp goes to public healthcare, three per cent to education.
  • The transaction cost with government is pegged at 3-5% of project cost.
  • Political expediency has meant that most of the vital reforms are still undone.
  • Farm productivity has been stagnant since 1995, fuelling migration to the cities.
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