Arvind Panagariya, ex-advisor to PM Modi, is India’s new Finance Commission head

Arvind Panagariya, former advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been appointed as the chairman of a new Finance Commission that will recommend how federal taxes will be shared with states, reported Reuters quoting Union Ministry of Finance notification on 31 December. He was designated as the head of the 16th Finance Commission on Sunday by the … Read more