Fighting inflation, yes! »
And then, what to do?
Call in a corporate icon like Captain Gopinath to streamline the foodgrains management and rationalise the price of essential commodities!
There is a 40-month high inflation at 7 and above per cent. There is a great deal of tension in the government. The Cabinet is divided as to what to do. The [...]
Deploy IT tools to solve peoples’s problems at the grass roots. »
Appoint Nandan Nilekani as Prime Minister’s special adviser!
Call Dr.Devi Shetty of Narayan Hirudalaya to make telemedicine part of the primary health centres!
Revamp the public services in the Indian villages!
Revenue depts. are the age-old institutions. Panchayat raj is with us for so many years.
Rural health services are in total decline and utterly disappointing.
The average villager’s life [...]
From land reforms laws to land grabbing realities! »
Who talks of land reforms these days? Not even the Communists who were once associated with this piece of legal fiction! Yes, land reforms have become a piece of legal fiction only. The reality is otherwise!
Today, the trend is land-grabbing! Today, you can grab as much private and public land as you can, as your [...]
Open letter to Kapil Sibal, the science minister »
Where were your scientists? When you held the Science Congress?
What is the contribution of scientists to agriculture, rural development?
Scientists don’t show interest in country’s problems!
Scientists don’t contribute to agriculture, biotechnology, seeds and environment and climate change etc?
Science Congress President
Spoke in the face of the Prime Minister!
“Don’t take away precious fertile lands under your SEZz policy?”
“How [...]
Agri/horti/animal husbandry depts. »
Forestry and medicinal crops depts
Can generate agriculture prosperity!
If Nabard mandate is redrawn and SHGs and microfinance are put under a Cabinet Minister! State level agri finance corporations a must!
New subsidies to new generation farm enterprises can usher in economic prosperity in the villages!
New insurance cover for the agro-micro enterprises could trigger off a new dispersed [...]
Inclusive growth? »
Without agri sector being part of it?
PM confesses it is a “peculiar puzzle”!
The next general elections will be won or lost on farmer’s issues?
The PM is clueless and might not care for!
Yes, the next elections are looming large on everyone’s mind. The 54th National Development Council meeting saw enough to doubt whether the PM is [...]
Prof.Amartya Sen, Prof.Tapan Raychaudhury on rural India »
Rural Indian can be saved, for sure!
Rural India needs a new focus
Institutional changes are called for
There is no room for any complacency about rural India.
There is much that needs to be done.
To reduce the number of people under poverty trap.
The National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised Sector headed by the competent Dr.Arjun Sengupta could be [...]
How to draw people and resources to agriculture? »
World economic slow-down affects Indian growth
Food prices on the rise world over and so our food self-sufficiency goal at risk
Climate changes can impact India’s agriculture prospects and we need a new agriculture strategy
These are now the world scenario as far as India’s agriculture prospects are concerned.
Yes, as for the economic growth rate for India to [...]
An unstable rural India emerging! »
Why our villages remain as they are?
Why our agriculture neglected? It is Gandhi-Nehru legacies of an idealistic or unrealistic world views?
C.K.Prahalad, the management guru had put forward the thesis of “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Who the BOP? The poor, right? But then, where does the real rural India come in? The various [...]
India’s biofuel policy shouldn’t punish farmers! »
As sugarcane farmers punished by sugar factories and the governments!
Biodiesel policy won’t work if it threatens food security!
PM on his South African tour was publicised as talking of biofuels at the Brazil, S.Africa and India summit. But this is just public rations exercise only.
Ethnol, biodiesel and green diesel! Do you know the various biofuels that [...]