Manufacturing a policy

The National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council or NMCC, may well have been set up in 2004 to provide a sinecure for a Gandhi family loyalist, since few in government took its ideas seriously in the years when overall growth stood at nine per cent and the idea of “industrial policy” was not yet back in fashion. NMCC Chairman V Krishnamurthy often ploughed a lonely furrow: seeking a “level playing field” for domestic manufacturing was still viewed as either demanding protectionism or favouritism.

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