Subhash Chandra Garg- Economy, Finance and Fiscal Policy Strategist

  A NEW PHASE OF PUBLIC POLICY SERVICE BEGINS TODAY   Subhash Chandra Garg Economy, Finance and Fiscal Policy Strategist   Today I complete one year of taking voluntary retirement from the IAS on 31 st October 2019. As Government rules restrict the officers from taking up any commercial employment for a period of one year after retirement, this one-year period was a period of transition out of the government employment. The transition gets completed today. The new phase of public policy service as a private citizen begins now. Took Voluntary Retirement Exactly a Year Earlier On this day last year, I left the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), taking voluntary retirement, after completing government and public service for over 36 years. I left the government one year before my normal date of superannuation, which in the normal course would have been today. As I stated in my Note [1] , the IAS provided me unrivalled space and opportunity to work in public administratio

  India Facing Grave Environmental Crisis   SUBHASH CHANDRA GARG Economy, Finance and Fiscal Policy Strategist and Former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Government of India   Economic Growth Impacts Environment Early humans lived as part of the nature. They did not produce any food and ate whatever nature provided in the wild. They did not construct houses to live in. The humans lived without altering nature’s resource base. There was no adverse impact of human’s existence on nature and her environment. Over the millennia, human ingenuity expanded their ability to produce new goods and services using both organic and inorganic resources. The agriculture expanded food supply which in turn allowed humans to settle and multiply leading to human population grow. The agriculture settlements led to construction of houses. The agriculture and human settlement produced early machines and equipment, which also led to development of handlooms and handicraft. In the agricul