Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today outlined the road map for the second year of the NDA government which includes making taxation more reasonable and improving the ease of doing business in India.

Maintaining the speed of reforms and eliminating discretion would be the thrust areas of the government going forward as it completes one year in office, he told PTI in an interview.

The finance minister also dismissed any perception that nothing has moved on the ground on the policy front in reviving the economy and said that view was confined only to a section of critics. Answering a question about voices from India Inc. complaining that the government was not walking the talk, Jaitley said there was no such "overwhelming perception".

Some of the reports complaining about the economy not having taken off were "inspired news items referring to a dozen people without naming a single", he said.

A section of corporates voicing disappointment were those who were used to a "system of largesse", according to the minister. As for taxation, he said, the effort would be to make it "more reasonable".