Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 22
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi who described the meeting as “excellent” in which they had “healthy and extensive interaction’’ and stating that the country is proud of his accomplishment.
“Excellent meeting with Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee. His passion towards human empowerment is clearly visible. We had a healthy and extensive interaction on various subjects. India is proud of his accomplishments. Wishing him the very best for his future endeavours,” Modi said in a tweet after the meeting.
Thanking the PM for spending time with him Banerjee said through the interaction he could hear about the thinking about the policies and how Modi was seeking to make bureaucracy more responsive to people.
Banerjee in a video clip was seen stating that he heard from the Prime Minister the way he sees governance since there is mistrust of people on the ground hat colours governance. The effort is to make bureaucracy more responsive and expose it to reality on the groun, which is important.
Later addressing the media while refusing to take questions on the state of the economy or policies of the Centre, Banerjee said at the meeting, the PM cracked a joke that the media was trying to trap him to make “anti-Modi” remark.
“I had a cordial and good meeting. Prime Minister Modi started by cracking a joke on how media is trying to trap me to say anti-Modi things. He's been watching TV and he's been watching you guys. And he knows what you are trying to do,” he said in response to a question about the meeting in the backdrop of his comment on economic slowdown.
The meeting with PM also should close the chapter and debate after Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal dubbed Banerjee as “Leftist” whose NYAY scheme that the Congress party projected during the Lok Sabha polls as an alternate economic model the electorate rejected.
However, to specific questions he said the government equity in public sector banks should be reduced to below 50 per cent so as to get the fear out of the bankers from being probed by Central Vigilance Commission in cases of default. Reducing the equity would take the bankers out of the CVC purview, he said.
Banerjee said today the government's equity in public sector banks should be reduced to below 50 per cent in order to end fear psychosis among bankers.
Backing the national health scheme, he said, everything should be done to make sure people get quality healthcare. ‘’We need to find ways to so that families don’t lose all their assets when somebody in the family gets sick’’…it serves an important gap in our economic structure’’.
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