To reduce inequality in, first prune the number of central schemes

Suresh Tendulkar recounts an anecdote, in a volume brought out a couple of years ago in honour of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, about a conference in Bangkok when Manmohan Singh was deputy chairman of the Planning Commission . “After other delegations presented their experiences in managing a market economy , the Chinese vice-minister presented an outline of the Chinese reform programme . At the end of the presentation , Singh, in his usual gentle but forceful tone, asked, “Would not what you are trying to do result in greater inequality in China?” To that, the minister replied, with great conviction, “We would certainly hope so!”

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