For 9 Pct Growth, Investments & Supplies Need To Improve: RBI Guv Raghuram Rajan

“The G20 framework working group is suppose to be co-chaired by Canada and India. Canada has seven strong economists working on this group and trying to further the agenda while India brings fewer people to the table because we don’t have that strength in the number of economists that we can actually contribute,” he said.

Rajan said the country does not have many people working in the government who have that kind of training and that kind of capacity.

“As a result, what happens is more of the pen and the writing is done by the Canadians and they step up to the play.

It would be far better for us to bring in more people to that working group so that we act as equal partners rather than let them do the writing and we do the commentary,” he said.

Rajan said the government’s flagship ‘Make in India’ programme can be successful by creating transparent taxation system and by building business-friendly environment.

“One of our solutions of problem of employment was to create small scale industry but they got decimated by competition from elsewhere. It would have been better if we would have allowed large scale industry in those places.

They would have employed far more,” he said.

He added: “I think micro-managing the future is going to become very very hard. And that is why again and again I say let’s make in India but what that does mean let’s not restrict what we make in India.

“Let’s create the frameworks, let’s make the business easier, let’s make taxation more transparent, more predictable and let’s do all the things necessary to allow our businesses to create what is needed.”

Rajan said India will implement the global Basel III banking norms as per the schedule.