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UGC-NET 2023 Question 47: Planning, reforms and liberalisation

The BOP crisis of the early 1990s made India borrow from the IMF, which came on the following conditions:

A. Devaluation of rupee by 22%.

B. Drastic customs cut to a peak duty of 30% from the erstwhile level of 130% for all goods.

C. Consolidation of all indirect taxes into one tax.

D. Excise duty to be increased by 20% to neutralize the loss of revenue due to customs cut.

E. Government expenditure to be cut by 10% per annum.

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This question is on The 1991 economic reforms, part of Planning, reforms and liberalisation in Indian Economy.

The liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation reforms that ended the licence era.

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