The highest allocation since its launch! We are all likely to forget or even if we know, at least some of the experts and others might know that on Februray 27 2015 the Prime Minister Mr.Modi in a speech delivered in Parliament had described the scheme s a living example of great failure! Yes, that…
Category: Economics
An inflated economic growth rate?
The Reserve Bank Governor’s warning! Was it worded in the politically incorrect language? The highly-rated RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan had made the very insightful remark on India’s economic growth claims claiming that because only the Indian economy is reportedly growing at 7.5 plus rate that we, Indians, shouldn’t feel complacent nor should we imagine that…
Bank defaulters! That is wilful defaulters!
May the tribe grow? Or, when you will act and do justice? Mr.Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister, might not have imagined in the wildest of his dreams that a set of intractable problems, corruption, black money and also unpaid huge bank loans by the high and mighty, besides his unfulfilled promises of getting the black…
Ethics Committees of the Indian Parliament
Both in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to meet They would probe the ethics and the conduct of MPs The power of the press and public opinion can help the Parliamentary committees to do a great job. You see ethics is heavy word. Its meaning and significance can’t be explained in simple journalistic style….
Bengali Entrepreneurship
Guest Post GLORIOUS BENGALI ‘SWADESHI’ ENTREPRENEURSHIP – TIME FOR REVIVAL! By – Dr. Kaustav Bhattacharyya The word ‘Bengali Entrepreneur’ was perceived as a contradiction in terms in the past, while growing up during the heady days of Leftist ideology one could sense the disdain and apathy expressed towards commerce and trade. Today the expression ‘Bengali Entrepreneur’…
NITI AAYOG’s proposals to make transparent land laws?
It is time we draw investments in farming. It can be done only when we stop populist slogans in agriculture and also curb the corrupt politician’s hypocrisies! Vote-bank politics had ruined farming sector! The latest issue of The Economist magazine carries a special article on agriculture biodiversity (September, 2015). It makes an interesting reading and…
Safeguarding democracy and promoting the economy
The challenges before Modi are real! Yes, there is a certain discerning public perception that the Modi magic, the brave words and gesture of assertions apart, there is a subdued skepticism creeping through as to where India stands? Are we moving? And where and in which direction? Modi has his own style and his own…
What is India’s foreign policy?
Does the PM have a world view? Indian Prime Ministry Mr.Narendra Modi, in the first few months in office did do many unusual things. He went on a sort of an international odyssey, India’s neighbours, Bhutan, Nepal and then to USA and Australia and Fiji and also went to some notable summits, in Brazil where…