India, May 15 -- The Government should focus on curbing systemic inefficiencies in the fertiliser subsidy regime. Funding fertiliser subsidy by oil money undermines the Fund's core purpose of boosting domestic oil and gas capabilities, jeopardising long-term energy security for short-term fiscal optics

The Government should focus on curbing systemic inefficiencies in the fertiliser subsidy regime. Funding fertiliser subsidy by oil money undermines the Fund's core purpose of boosting domestic oil and gas capabilities, jeopardising long-term energy security for short-term fiscal optics.

For the first time, in the nearly five-decade history of implementing the Fertiliser Subsidy Scheme, the Union Government has decided to dip into the Oil ...