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India's Home Minister P.Chidambaram stressed the need of implementing faster reforms that are required to achieve inclusive growth and said that a higher growth rate is not a remedy, reported the PTI. The minister who had been the Finance Minister before, said that the country should not go back with lazy reforms to enjoy the glory of 9% growth. He said that millions of people remained outside the market economy and faster reforms are required to bring them in. He stressed faster norms in sectors like Foreign Direct Investment and Education. He opined that transport fuel, fertilizer and food grain subsidies should continue. While defending farmers loan waiver program, he pointed out that Rs.47,123 crore were written-off between 1999 and 2004 in the industrial sector and added that this benefited only a few hundred industries while the farmers loan waiver was useful to 36-million farmers, who are debt free now due to this year's drought. Chidambaram also said that the GDP to tax ratio is low in our country compared with the developed countries. He said that people could pay more with their capacity to pay. Delivering the fourth Nani Palkhiwala Memorial lecture in Mumbai, Chidambaram paid tributes to Nani Palkhiwala recalling that Palkhiwala pulled us back from the edge when he successfully argued before the Supreme Court against the misguided attempt to amend the constitution in 1976.
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