Opportunity for reforms

Opportunity for reforms

Your cover story (BT, June 14, 2009) has done well to draw the right comparisons between the newly elected UPA government and its previous avatar. The performance of the earlier UPA government left a lot to be desired, in areas like internal security, infrastructure and reforms in the financial sector. Now that the UPA has a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha, one expects a firmer resolve from the new government in pushing through liberal policies, especially in the financial sector.
Srinivasan Umashankar, through e-mail

Small is big and cool
Thanks for coming out with your special feature on Cool Companies (BT, June 14). Reading about many of the star performers in your listing, one could not miss the fact that companies like Domino’s Pizza, Ecomantra, Meru Cab are all small in size and have barely been a few years in the business. Yet, they have managed to strike it big and rich. It goes to prove that small companies, if they are smart and dynamic, can build a business edge that can more than make up for the advantages of size and scale.
Kavita Jayaram, through e-mail

Time for action
The previous government’s policies and decisions were often hostage to the pulls and pressure from various regional allies and coalition partners. But this time around there’s no such excuse for the UPA leadership to drop the ball on economic reforms and initiatives.
Ramesh Bhojwani, through e-mail

Corrigendum
In the report on the sixth BT-Cirrus study of India’s biggest newsmakers in 2008-09 (BT, May 31), the Quality of Exposure (QE) score of Cognizant was inadvertently mentioned as 149. The correct QE score for Cognizant is 194. The Total Image Score for Cognizant should be read as 219,833 (and not 168,976 as published). Cognizant’s overall rank in 2008-09 should therefore be 32 (and not 44 as published).

In the list for IT sector, Cognizant’s overall rank should be six (and not seven as published).

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