<p>Praising the government for its initiatives to deal with the current economic issues, Mittal said, "I have never seen in a long period of time, the finance ministry being so pro-active in looking up issues...informing us what is going on. I want to say business is better than perception."<br /><br />He said this after meeting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee here.<br /><br />Disagreeing with some industrialists who had raised concerns over policy paralysis in the government, Mittal, who is the Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, said, "Well, I think, lots of steps are being taken. I am delighted that very pro-active programmes running here."<br /><br />Wipro Chairman Azim Premji had recently ctiticised the government for its failure to address the economic issues.<br /><br />"The biggest concern is over the governance issues. There is complete absence of decision-making among the leaders in the government," Premji had said earlier in the month.<br /><br />A group of prominent personalities that included Premji, Keshub Mahindra of Mahindra and Mahindra and HDFC's Deepak Parekh, in an open letter to the national leadership had expressed concerns over a series of scams leading to what they termed as "governance deficit".<br /><br />Mittal, however, sounded more like the head of USD 150- billion multinational company General Electric Jeffery Immelt who had said business was not as bad as the general mood.<br /><br />"While I am no economist to make a prognosis, what I can say is that the underlying business is better than the mood," Immelt, who was in India last month, had said.<br /><br />Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too in his remarks at the recent National Development Council (NDC) had warned the nation to shun the mood of negativism.</p>
<p>Praising the government for its initiatives to deal with the current economic issues, Mittal said, "I have never seen in a long period of time, the finance ministry being so pro-active in looking up issues...informing us what is going on. I want to say business is better than perception."<br /><br />He said this after meeting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee here.<br /><br />Disagreeing with some industrialists who had raised concerns over policy paralysis in the government, Mittal, who is the Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, said, "Well, I think, lots of steps are being taken. I am delighted that very pro-active programmes running here."<br /><br />Wipro Chairman Azim Premji had recently ctiticised the government for its failure to address the economic issues.<br /><br />"The biggest concern is over the governance issues. There is complete absence of decision-making among the leaders in the government," Premji had said earlier in the month.<br /><br />A group of prominent personalities that included Premji, Keshub Mahindra of Mahindra and Mahindra and HDFC's Deepak Parekh, in an open letter to the national leadership had expressed concerns over a series of scams leading to what they termed as "governance deficit".<br /><br />Mittal, however, sounded more like the head of USD 150- billion multinational company General Electric Jeffery Immelt who had said business was not as bad as the general mood.<br /><br />"While I am no economist to make a prognosis, what I can say is that the underlying business is better than the mood," Immelt, who was in India last month, had said.<br /><br />Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too in his remarks at the recent National Development Council (NDC) had warned the nation to shun the mood of negativism.</p>