Subsidy cuts a necessary ‘evil’

By JAGDEV SINGH SIDHU

The current government must show some serious political will if it wants to thoroughly reform the energy subsidy programme. — AZMAN GHANI/ The Star

WE are an oil producer but large oil producing countries have higher prices at the pump.

When the rationalisation of energy subsidies was mooted, it was not only the government that was fretting over how it can be done.

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