Austerity: Pranab tries to downplay Cabinet colleagues’ ‘fears’

“I have suggested that in domestic services you should try to avoid (travelling executive class) because the distance is not far off. So far as international flights are concerned they can travel executive class instead of first class”,Mukherjee said in an interaction with journalists at the Women’s Press Corps.

“There is some misunderstanding”,he said,adding that “every ministry has financial advisors who understand what is practicable and implementable and they would advise you accordingly”.

“So don’t worry over it,” he told his cabinet colleagues who had raised questions in the cabinet about the practicability of austerity measures announced by the Finance Ministry on Monday.