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What were the main objectives of the economic reforms?

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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:

  1. Liberalization
  2. Privatization and
  3. Globalization.


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