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Lockdown govt’s self-goal: Subhash Chandra Garg

A premature hard lockdown imposed across the country to curb the Covid-19 pandemic was responsible for India’s economic plunge, according to former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg.

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Updated on Nov 02, 2020 05:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Nirmala Sitharaman wanted me out of finance ministry, says former secretary Subhash Garg

Garg, who took voluntary retirement soon after being moved from the finance ministry - where he handled the Department of Economic Affairs - to power ministry, said Sitharaman, unlike her predecessor Arun Jaitley, had “a very different personality and knowledge endowment”.

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Oct 31, 2020 05:57 PM IST
New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India | Posted by Shivani Kumar

Shifted out of finance ministry, Garg seeks early retirement

Earlier in the day, there was buzz that Garg could resign from service over what is widely seen as a demotion. He took over as finance secretary in March.

Garg was secretary in the Department of Economic affairs (DEA) and was designated as finance secretary since he was the senior-most bureaucrat among the five secretaries in the finance ministry.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 26, 2019 03:21 AM IST
New Delhi | By

Top India official defends data revisions amid controversy

India sought to put an end to a controversy about political influence on government data, with a top finance ministry official saying revisions to economic statistics are a fact and the revisions themselves are based on facts.

Garg’s clarification comes a week after 108 economists from around the world accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration of deliberately revising or withholding statistics that show his government in poor light.(Pradeep Gaur/Mint)
Updated on Mar 22, 2019 01:19 PM IST
Bloomberg | ByKarthikeyan Sundaram

Govt wants to discuss RBI ‘governance issues’ with it

The Centre wants to discuss changes to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) governance structure at a board meeting next month, including setting up some oversight panels, economic secretary Subhash Chandra Garg told a news channel.

The proposals to discuss governance at the RBI’s December 14 board meeting may further inflame tensions between the finance ministry and central bank.(File Photo)
Updated on Nov 27, 2018 10:42 AM IST
Bloomberg, Mumbai | ByAnirban Nag
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