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Special focus on agriculture missing link in both policies
On Friday morning, when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das dealt his sharpest and deepest cut to interest rates, the markets remained rather lukewarm, if not outright cold, to the central bank’s response to the coronavirus crisis. Coincidentally, the market also slipped on Thursday after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the government’s relief package. Happenstance or coordinated policy action, Das shares something else in common with his boss, Ms Sitharaman: both the policy designs seem to have not only missed a beat but also failed to address the right constituencies.