ISBN: 9788184005691    Publisher: Random House India Year of publishing: 2014     Format:  Hardback No of Pages: 320        Language: English

Getting India Back On Track: An Action Agenda For Reform is a collection of essays written by leading Indian policymakers and analysts, who have come together to find solutions to some crucial questions. It discusses and analyses the opportunities and challenges that India currently face. Highly detailed and policy-driven, each of the seventeen chapters are presented like a memoranda that offers solutions to the new Indian government. Some of the contributors to this book include Surjit Bhalla, Omkar Goswami, Ila Patnaik, C Raja Mohan and Ashok Gulati, amongst others. These experts recommend policies in every major sector of the Indian economy, like how to strengthen the rule of law, expand education and skills, manage urbanisation, revamp agriculture, generate employment, rejuvenate foreign policy and more. This non-fiction book covers the scale and complexity of the problems that India faces at the state and national levels. in the foreword, Ratan N Tata writes that it is high time that our nation cemented its place as a major global, political and economic player. This book is ideal for anyone who is interested in knowing what India's future may hold. It addresses both domestic and foreign issues and provides a clear road map for the government on how to take India forward. Getting India Back On Track: An Action Agenda For Reform, published in 2014 by Random House India, is available in hardcover.
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Bibek Debroy, born in 1955, is an Indian economist and a professor at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He has been the Director of the Legal Adjustments and Reforms for Globalising the Economy project. Ashley J Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been a senior adviser to the ambassador at the American Embassy in New Delhi and was deeply involved in the nuclear agreement between India and the US. Tellis completed his PhD from the University of Chicago and has been a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Reece Trevor is a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He works as a research assistant in the Carnegie South Asia Program. Trevor completed his bachelor's in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
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