After Deepak Parekh and Azim Premji, leading industrialist Mukesh Ambani on Sunday sent a strong message to the political leadership, seeking dramatic changes in the way governments are run and decisions taken.
The chairman of Reliance Industries, the largest Indian company in terms of market value, called for a “dramatic shift in governance” and asked both the central and state governments to “align and move a lot faster”.
“Within this path, from the 20th-century mindset to the 21st-century delivery model, to meet the expectations of every citizen requires a dramatic shift in terms of our governance. Both the central and state governments need to align and move a lot faster,” he said at the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum.
“In today’s world of aspirations, people want instant gratification... everything is instantaneous and everything needs to happen now... I think what we need is to put our heads down and figure out how do we deliver in terms of making sure that all the framework is defined, at the same time we are still able to move fast,” he said.
Hinting that he’s worried over many key reforms and Bills being put on hold due to a lack of political consensus, Ambani said: “I think there’s a mismatch... We are both heading in the same direction — and sometimes, like you have seen in the US and Europe, that’s the price of democracy — but we shouldn’t (stall) by saying that because the institutions of democracy are there, we will be paralysed. And because there is an opposition... we would do nothing. This is what worries me.
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