| Answer» Objectives: To encourage private and foreign investments on a large scale. This would then utilize India’s abundant natural and human wealth for its economic development that too with higher productivity.Optimum and efficient allocation of India’s resources.Reduce and restrict state expenditures. Organize resources obtained through disinvestment of non-performing public enterprises in such a manner that their utility can be increased and public welfare can be done from the same.Increase domestic income, employment and export income of the country.Increase competitiveness of the Indian economy.Ensure steady economic growth and development of the Indian economy in the long run.In order to fulfill these objectives, in 1991, the government of India started making systematic reforms in its economic policy.
 The economic reforms focused on three main components. They are: LiberalizationPrivatization andGlobalization.
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