Must for institutions
Asset-liability management should ordinarily be part of the normal administration of any financial institution. Asset-liability mismatch is how banks make their money, and the objective is to ensure that these mismatches do not go out of control.

Gold bond scheme
There has been a rush of gold imports into the country, and this is a major reason behind the ballooning of the trade deficit.

Time to make tax laws fair and flexible
Generally, an Indian citizen, having faced confiscatory rates of taxes, if he is asked of his budget expectations, asks for lower rates of taxes by way of reflex.

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