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…
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…
Gandhigram Rural University, Dindigal-Kasturba Gandhi Endowment Lecture-regarding
His Excellency Sri Surjit Singh Barnalla, Governor of Tamil Nadu, Raj Bhavan, Guindy, Chennai Dear your Excellency, Sub: Gandhigram Rural University, Dindigal-Kasturba Gandhi Endowment Lecture-regarding I had the honour of being invited to deliver the Kasturba Gandhi Endowment Lecture at the prestigious Gandhigram Rural University, near Dindigal, Madurai on 22nd Feb, 2008 The lecture and…
President ship of the Congress for 10 long years
Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Today is March 14 and it nice to write to you and congratulate you for having completed the President ship of the Congress for 10 long years. This is a great accomplishment by any measurement and in politics this is something unusually…
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…
Priyarajna Dasmunsi’s audacity!
Claims Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh saved farmers! Parliament adjourned for a day over farmers’ suicides! Yes, there is a farce going on in New Delhi on the eve of the submission of the budget! The two Houses of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been adjourned over the continuing farmers’s suicides. One national…
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…
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…