Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said policymakers need to change their regulatory mindset asserting that role of state should be minimised and government monopoly must end wherever possible.
Speaking at the National Workshop on Citizen-Centric Governance, he said the economic reforms, which seek to promote easing of doing business, will continue as these are “never-ending processes and do not have a finishing line”.
Jaitley said policymakers in India still have a “regulatory mindset” which needs to change even as he spoke of the urgency for policing reforms to make police-citizen interaction more civilised.
“… the control temperament or the control freak temperament of the political system has still not been fully done away with and there is a legacy to it,” Jaitley said, adding that all actions of the government should be aimed at “providing a better quality of life to citizens and minimising the role of the government”.