New Delhi: Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has suggested to the government to call people with proven expertise and capabilities, including from opposition parties, to deal with perhaps the greatest emergency being faced by the country since Independence following the coronavirus outbreak.
He also cautioned that driving everything from the Prime Minister’s Office, with the same overworked people, may not be of much help.
“There is much to do. The government should call on people with proven expertise and capabilities, of whom there are so many in India, to help it manage its response. It may even want to reach across the political aisle to draw in members of the opposition who have had experience in previous times of great stress like the global financial crisis.
“If, however, the government insists on driving everything from the Prime Minister’s Office, with the same overworked people, it will do too little, too late,” Rajan said in a blog titled “Perhaps India’s Greatest Challenge in Recent Times”.
