In June 1991, Manmohan Singh was unexpectedly appointed as India’s Finance Minister by PV Narasimha Rao. Singh, along with Rao, initiated major economic reforms that transformed India’s economy from a low-growth state to the fastest growing major economy. Singh’s first budget abolished the licence-permit raj, liberalized industries, and focused on fiscal consolidation, significantly boosting India’s economic outlook.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In June 1991, Manmohan Singh was unexpectedly appointed as India’s Finance Minister by PV Narasimha Rao. Singh, along with Rao, initiated major economic reforms that transformed India’s economy from a low-growth state to the fastest growing major economy. Singh’s first budget abolished the licence-permit raj, liberalized industries, and focused on fiscal consolidation, significantly boosting India’s… Read More »Manmohan Singh: The phone call in 1991 that changed a nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}