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	Encyclopedia: Montek Singh Ahluwalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Montek-Singh-Ahluwalia (447 words)

	Montek Singh Ahluwalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montek Singh Ahluwalia (born November 24, 1943) has been a key figure in India's economic reforms from the early 1980s onwards.
		Ahluwalia was a Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi as well as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
		Ahluwalia is married to Isher Judge Ahluwalia and has two children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montek_Singh_Ahluwalia (226 words)

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		Montek Singh Ahluwalia is the Director of the newly established Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund.
		Ahluwalia stressed that this economic liberalization led to a rapid paradigmatic shift that significantly reduced suspicion of the private sector.
		Ahluwalia sought to clarify the notion that richer states have become richer and the poorer states have become poorer.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol11no1/baweja.htm (752 words)

	IMF goofed up in Argentina: Montek
		The Independent Evaluator, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, now deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, has said the "IMF surveillance failed to highlight the growing vulnerabilities in the authority's choice of policies and the IMF erred by supporting inadequate policies too long".
		Ahluwalia says while the Fund was correct in recognising that fiscal discipline and structural reforms were essential, it underestimated just how unsustainable the country's level of debt was.
		While Ahluwalia's report would be seen by many, such as the Left parties in India, as evidence that IMF policies don't work, the Independent Evaluator's report actually makes a strong case for being a lot more alert in areas like deterioration in fiscal balances and public debt, and in maintaining a correct exchange rate.
	us.rediff.com /money/2004/aug/03imf.htm (512 words)

	Rediff On The Net: Budget'98: The Budget-Makers - Montek Singh Ahluwalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Dr Manmohan Singh held the reins in the finance ministry, Ahluwalia was his most trusted lieutenant and has tended to share credit with Singh as one of the chief architects of the economic reforms programme.
		Like the finance minister, he is known as an ardent advocate of liberalisation and has on occasion shown his impatience with the inability of the government to tackle well-entrenched electoral constituencies whose closeness to political powers has ensured the continuance of privileges that come in the way of pushing economic reforms forward.
		For Ahluwalia, the challenge is to ensure that economic policy remains on the reforms path even as he helps put in place a policy framework that contains the right amount of political rhetoric without sacrificing economic horse sense.
	www.rediff.com /budget/1998/may/montek.htm (396 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Montek Singh Ahluwalia (extreme right) with two other plan panel members after a meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday.
		Ahluwalia had ruffled the Left with his statement that foreign advisers would continue on consultative committees of the plan panel, a day after the Prime Minister assured a high-level CPM delegation of taking the party’s views into consideration.
		In response to Ahluwalia’s statement, five Left economists who are members of the Planning Commission’s consultative bodies had threatened to resign unless the foreign experts quit the panel.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040929/asp/nation/story_3817315.asp (504 words)

	Economy & Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Montek Singh Ahluwalia was in Ahmedabad to deliver the second D T Lakdawala lecture organised by the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research (SPIESR).
		Ahluwalia exspressed serious concern over the growth rate of the agriculture sector, for which a growth target of four per cent has been set, but which has grown by just around 1.5 per cent since 1996.
		Ahluwalia said that he did not subscribe to views that the slowdown in the growth of agriculture sector was because of economic reforms, that the rural distress was because of a mad rush for growth or because of the WTO and globalisation.
	www.business-standard.com /common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&autono=179848&leftnm=lmnu2 (392 words)

	The Latest Annoucements and What's New Highlights at Naandi Foundation, a not for profit trust in Hyderabad, India.
		Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission was taken by Naandi Foundation on a visit to a government school during his brief stopover at Hyderabad on 23 March 2005.
		Yellow roses and a "Warm welcome Montek Singh Uncle" greeted Mr Ahluwalia as the children from the Early Childhood Centre shook their tiny hands with their "Montek Singh uncle" when he entered the school with the Naandi team.
		Mr Ahluwalia was pleasantly surprised to meet the volunteers from Hyderabad's Civil Society and Corporates (volunteers from Four Soft were present during his visit) who have adopted government schools and are working together with Naandi as ambassadors of quality education.
	www.naandi.org /UpdateArchive/Montek.asp (784 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Call for stronger ties with US Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia (left), C. Rangarajan (right), chairman of the economic advisory council, and Sanjaya Baru, PM’s media adviser, in New Delhi on Monday.
		Singh said the government must devise a medium-to-long-term strategy for India’s economic interaction with the world, with a special focus on relations with India’s neighbours and major economic partners.
		Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia made a presentation to the committee on his recent visit to the US and on Indo-US relations.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050614/asp/business/story_4864669.asp (397 words)

	Budget work on; Montek meets FM
		Ahluwalia, who played a pivotal role in Budget making as finance and economic affairs swecretary under three finance ministers -- Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram and Yashwant Sinha -- is an expert on policy issues, particularly economic reforms.
		Both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram have already indicated that the next Budget would lay emphasis on comprehensive tax reforms and create necessary environment to boost infrastructure development, which had potential to absorb upto $150 billion worth of foreign direct investment in the next four to five years.
		Though Ahluwalia was tight-lipped over today's discussions, it is understood that utilisation of a small portion of burgeoning foreign exchange reserves, now at $120 billion, for infrastructure development figured in the meeting.
	in.rediff.com /money/2004/nov/04bud.htm (238 words)

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		Singh said India is a country "grappling earnestly with the challenges posed by globalisation, and finding solutions to these challenges within the framework of her democratic polity.
		Ahluwalia explained: "India's growth record during the period of globalisation has been much better than it was in the 1960s and 1970s, when economic growth slowed down to 3.5 per cent per year.
		Commenting on the availability of capital, Ahluwalia said it depended on the rate of investment, which in turn was determined by the rate of savings.
	www.ibef.org /artdisplay.aspx?cat_id=60&art_id=5882 (838 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Montek Singh Ahluwalia, and maybe he was happy as P.M. he had stood by his handpicked man. But the upshot of it was it had followed uncalled for pressure by Communist MPs supporting the Government from outside.
		Ahluwalia was Manmohan Singh’s sure bet to ensure his influence as the Prime Minister in the muddle of post-election politics in the country.
		Apart from the Ahluwalia issue, the Communist MPs were also protesting the Planning Commission’s appointment of World Bank and IMF representatives on various committees to consult on economic progress.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7336164&postID=109813876377794414 (270 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : State to seek increase in Plan size for 2006-07
		Singh told presspersons here that he and Finance Minister P.G.R. Sindhia and senior officials of the State Government will meet Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia in New Delhi on January 13 and present the State's case.
		Ahluwalia had said that the Planning Commission will come out with new proposals for the overall development of the State and infrastructure development in Bangalore.
		Dharam Singh said he has held preliminary discussions on next year's Plan proposals with the Finance Minister and the senior officials of the Government and directed them to prepare a proposal to be presented before the Planning Commission with details about the increased resource mobilisation and achievements under the current Plan.
	www.hindu.com /2005/12/22/stories/2005122210950100.htm (453 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Technocrats ignore political realities
		Dr Ahluwalia would surely recall the difficulties his mentor, Dr Manmohan Singh, had to face in 1991 and 1992 when he had to convince his then political opponents that he had not compromised India's national economic sovereignty by obtaining a $5-billion structural adjustment loan from the IMF.
		Many observers had felt then that Dr Singh was not exactly overjoyed slashing capital expenditure on health-care and education to adhere to the IMF's conditionalities, but had no choice in the matter.
		Dr Ahluwalia said the Commission would not be able to "do justice" to the mid-term appraisal if it relied solely on one set of civil servants commenting on the work of another set of civil servants.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2004/10/05/stories/2004100500100800.htm (1298 words)

	Daily Excelsior...Business
		Ahluwalia said there were many good features of economic reforms, the chief among them being that the growth rate had gone up to 6.5 per cent in the 1990s which was above the rate of 5.8 per cent in the 1980s, and way above 3.5 per cent in at least two decades after independence.
		Ahluwalia said one problem with the reforms was that they had been confined only to the Centre and had not percolated to the level of State Governments.
		Ahluwalia said this was because the world had changed and things were no longer the same as before which meant that business was being conducted under new rules.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /99dec20/busi.htm (2579 words)

	8% growth achievable, says Montek Singh - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The new Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said hard economic decisions were necessary to achieve the 7-8 per cent growth rate targeted in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP).
		Ahluwalia said the performance in the last few years was not sufficient to meet the targets.
		Mr Ahluwalia said he would be assuming charge on July 1 and would speak to the appointed members of the Commission to chalk out the plan.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun202004/b1.asp (450 words)

	Montek seeks reply from K'taka CM on infrastructure aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Agreeing with Singh's contention that Karnataka had large infrastructure requirement, particularly in Bangalore City, which has attracted global attention, Ahluwalia assured that the state's request for certain concession in duties and more funds would be considered.
		On the Metro Rail project, Ahluwalia said it was in the final stages of approval under a new policy framework and indicated the funding was unlikely to be on the model of Delhi project, which he described as 'old pattern'.
		Singh in his presentation briefed Ahluwalia on the infrastructure projects implemented by the coalition Government in the last 18 months and those proposed during the next 12 months, besides seeking at least 50 per cent of the cost of these projects be shared by the Center.
	news.indiainfo.com /2005/11/23/2311montek-clarification-urban-development.html (575 words)

	Enron's Montek connection
		Although Montek Singh Ahluwalia was most recently a Director of the International Monetary Fund, that appellation is not incorrect to describe Montek, who spent the first 11 years of his career with the World Bank.
		Thus when Ahluwalia sought World Bank funding for the privatised Enron power project, the Bretton Woods institution, despite being a strong votary of privatisation of the power sector, found it impossible to support the project.
		Ahluwalia hoped the Enron project would create a "favourable psychological impact for foreign investment in the power sector".
	www.flonnet.com /fl2123/stories/20041119006213100.htm (1688 words)

	Businessworld: Growth by the Greenback?
		Montek Singh Ahluwalia wants to use Some of our forex reserves on Infrastructure.
		Apart from public comments by Ahluwalia himself (where he variously indicated amounts ranging from $5 billion to $10 billion a year that could be used), there has been little information forthcoming from the finance ministry about the amount, or how the mechanism would work.
		Ahluwalia can point to other countries that have also used reserves for such a purpose.
	www.businessworldindia.com /oct1804/indepth02.asp (1369 words)

	The Banker: Montek Singh Ahluwalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Soon after Dr Manmohan Singh took over as India’s prime minister in May, he called his trusted lieutenant, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, to return home from Washington where he was working as the director of the International Monetary Fund’s independent evaluation office.
		Mr Ahluwalia is now back in New Delhi as deputy chairman of the planning commission, a government panel that, somewhat ironically, was at the heart of economic planning in India’s socialist past.
		Dr Singh’s job is to reinvent the commission to act as a think-tank on economic policy for the new government, and as a key agency for public investment.
	thebanker.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/2164/Montek_Singh_Ahluwalia.html (647 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Newly appointed Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said wryly, “The environment is not very conducive for the required public-private partnership to achieve the desired level of infrastructure (growth) in the country.”
		Despite forecasts of a bumper monsoon this year, Singh and his colleagues in the cabinet are worried that farm growth may not account for much in the years to come and, in fact, may well turn out to be a mirage.
		The plan panel as well as the World Bank have been warning for the last few years that falling public investment in farming and dwindling of credit to the rural sector could lead to a shrinkage in farm output and incomes which any number of good monsoons may not be able to rescue.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040706/asp/business/story_3459445.asp (389 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Montek Singh Ahluwalia returned from the US after his stint in the International Monetary Fund a few months back, he had an option—to run an archaic signpost of the socialist era or take the Planning Commission to new heights.
		Montek had inducted experts from Asian Develo-pment Bank into the consulting group on agriculture and forest resources, World Bank representatives into water resources and transport panels, and McKinsey men into power, energy, education and health panels.
		A realign-ment of priorities under Montek, who shares Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s priority for health and education, means emphasis on implementation of policies and improvement in delivery.
	www.the-week.com /24oct03/currentevents_article2.htm (1299 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Ahluwalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shabir Ahluwalia (Rishi, better known as Mrs Braganza, these days) proved to be her counterpart, when he held the trophy aloft for the Best Villain for Kahiin...
		Meanwhile, Mr SK Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner, has issued a show case notice to Mr Amit Jhanjhi, who is presently running a business of stamp vendor in the...
		Montek Singh Ahluwalia, director independent evaluation office of the IMF and former finance secretary India, said agriculture modernisation, higher labour...
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/A/Ahluwalia.shtml (656 words)

	HardNews - Arrested development
		India's management of liberalisation is back in the hands of its architects, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram and Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
		The rules of adversarial politics did not allow Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram to endorse the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) management, but apart from the criticism, there is little to show that they were unhappy about it.
		Ahluwalia knows better than most that an isolated seven per cent (2003-04) is not good enough to warrant a pat on the back, particularly when it comes after a year of 4.6 per cent (2002-03), preceded by performances of 5.7 per cent (2001-02) and 3.9 per cent (2000-01).
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /july2004/cstory4.php (1443 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		A controversial aspect is the appointment of Pavan Ahluwalia, son of Montek Singh hluwalia, as project consultant
		The other controversy revolves around the appointment of Pavan Ahluwalia, son of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, as a consultant in the project.
		First, Montek Singh is a former World Bank man and second, his son was also part of the project,” says Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main14.asp?filename=Cr091705For_a_glass.asp (669 words)

	'Montek acted in most autocratic way'
		Miffed Marxists and Communists have met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded the revival of a new consultative mechanism in the Planning Commission.
		"Montek Singh Ahluwalia acted in the most autocratic manner," Raja, one of the most outspoken Left leaders, tells Deputy Managing Editor George Iype, in an exclusive interview.
		The left should have understood the whole gameplan of the UPA (read Sonia) the moment both sardarjis were earmarked to carry out the governance during...
	in.rediff.com /money/2004/oct/05binter.htm (866 words)

	Railways must tap private funds: Ahluwalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There should be some organic change to ensure that money is actually flowing to the projects that are bankable and "the only real guarantee for that is if you have ideally completely non-recourse funding", he said.
		The current legal framework prevented the railways from borrowing directly; the sector has to find ways to tap private resources for its development projects, Ahluwalia said, observing that public-private partnership included joint activity wherein suppliers of services brought in finances from the private sector.
		Ahluwalia also said that the railways needed a rail tariff authority, which would rationalise fares and also take care of cross subisidies.
	us.rediff.com /money/2005/jan/24rail.htm (245 words)

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