The 1997 ______ Committee Report on Small Enterprises provided the intellectual foundation as well as a practical roadmap for this important reform.
Abid Hussain
The question points to a 1997 committee whose report on small enterprises supplied both the ideas and a working blueprint for reform of the sector.
In 1995 the government set up an Expert Committee on Small Enterprises under the economist and former IAS officer Abid Hussain, and its report was submitted in 1997.
The committee argued that heavy protection through product reservation had actually held small units back, and it recommended gradual de-reservation, easier credit, technology upgradation and a shift from protection to promotion and competitiveness.
These recommendations became the intellectual foundation and the practical roadmap for later small-scale-industry policy reforms, which is exactly what the statement describes.
P. L. Tandon is remembered for a committee on bank credit (working capital norms), K. L. Rekhi is not linked to this small-enterprise report, and Abhijit Sen chaired committees on agricultural prices and long-term grain policy, none of which fit a 1997 report on small enterprises.
Hence, the correct answer is Abid Hussain.
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