Rajiv Kumar said that as a result of the transformation, the country may witness appointment of individuals with much better understanding of India’s ground realities. (File Photo) Rajiv Kumar said that as a result of the transformation, the country may witness appointment of individuals with much better understanding of India’s ground realities. (File Photo)Foreign influence on Indian policy making by Indian-American economists is fading as part of the ongoing policy transformation in the NDA government, according to Rajiv Kumar, the economist who has been selected to replace Arvind Panagariya as the new vice chairman of NITI Aayog. In the column, Kumar also said that as a result of this transformation, the country may witness appointment of individuals with much better understanding of India’s ground realities. During this time, Kumar wrote, experts belonging to domestic academic spheres were considered inferior to their foreign counterparts, and as a result, were not considered deserving for high-ranking positions in the government.

Source: Indian Express August 08, 2017 00:36 UTC