Budget session hopes

THE budget session is taking place at a time when the nation is facing intricate problems of different shades and hues. In virtually every sphere of life, one finds issues born of poorly conceived policies and made more complicated with time. Whether it is the political, economic, administrative or foreign domain, the task before the political leadership is, without doubt, daunting. The judicial crisis; the dire economic challenge posed by a combination of external pressures and internal failings; the dismal law and order situation; and the thoroughly ill-judged policies about the so-called War on Terror, to name some glaring problems - all point to a scary scenario. The need of the hour is to make serious and wholehearted efforts to address them. Attempts at shying away for one consideration or the other would entail adverse repercussions.