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What should the finance minister's priorities be for the New Year? Politicians, economists, businessmen or journalists, they all all have a bit of advice for our FM.

Gurcharan Das

Consultant-Writer-Thinker

Swadeshi Jagaran Manch

An Rss-backed Swadeshi Lobby

Bibek Debroy

Director, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation

Prakash Karat

CPI(M) Politburo Member

Stop heeding the IMF-Bank directives;

Step up public investment in infrastructure and agriculture;

Increase taxes on the affluent to raise enough resources;

Stop selling psu assets to bridge the deficit; and

Stop cutting food subsidies and destroying the PDS.

Arun Bharat Ram

President, CII

Dewang Mehta

President, Nasscom

Surjit Bhalla

President, Oxus Research & Investment

Pradeep Kar

Chairman, Microland Group

Subroto Bagchi

Vice-Chairman, MindTree Technologies

Ashok Desai

Economist and Consulting Editor, Business World

Sunil B. Mittal

Chairman, Bharti Group