PM talks of timely information in agriculture : Only IT revolution can change agriculture too! Sharad Pawar may be a competent administrator and an agri expert. But is days in the agri ministry hasn’t shown any dramatic initiatives Our agri sector is deprived of latest information and innovations There is simply no public-private sector interaction…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
So, in New Delhi, no top bureaucrats retire!
They get new fancy jobs at four times their old salaries! Yes, this is one of the best kept secrets in New Delhi corridors of power! Once you get a government job, you become a new person or become a slave for your life? It all depends on how you look at life. As for…
AP Govt. opens WTO cell in agri dept
WTO is here to stay! India and farmers have to learn to make a success of WTO! WTO is a necessary good for the world agriculture. Without our agriculture or for that matter any country’s agriculture goods and services entering into the world trade the concerned agriculture goods and services won’t get the maximum prices….
After Bihar elections : Stable Coalition government in New Delhi possible?
Bihar Assembly elections sent shock waves in New Delhi. Lalu Yadav’s style of politics saw an end. Now, will Lalu and Paswan continue as Cabinet Ministers? The Supreme court judgement on Bihar Assembly dissolution might knock out some VIPs from cosy existence? A new phase has emerged in coalition politics in Delhi. Dr.Manmohan Singh was…
The Employment Guarantee Act
Where are the funds? When it will be disbursed? Where are the institutions to receive the funds? Who are all accountable for the funds use or misuse? Any hopes for rural India? For the rural poor? The Central government seems to have lost its direction and also the initial dynamism for action. Many new developments…
Indian agriculture has become stagnant
Create an agricultural innovation subsidy fund We need innovative ideas and projects in agriculture and agribusiness development projects. It is a fact that Indian agriculture has become stagnant. Statistics have been bandied about by now by the Prime Minister, the Dy. Planning Commission boss and also by Sharad Pawar. There are simply no new innovative…
Budget allocations for education and health : Corporate hospitals!
Tele-medicine should reach India’s remote areas. The budget makes generous allocations for education. But not enough for health. The allocations in the budget for national rural health mission allots just less than Rs. 2,000 more ( from Rs.8,420 crore to Rs.10,280 crore). We have a non-speaking Prime Minister and an over-talking Finance Minister.It seems that…
Update the school standards!
International Baccalaureate? IGCSE? Public Schools and established schools must go for them! Indian schools need updating!Indian schools must become international standard schools. There is an Indian Public Schools Conference organisation.Not much is heard of its activities, perhaps its activities are not worth reporting in the press or worthy of public attention. It is time we…