Economic Survey 2021 is rather gung-ho about India’s recovery and growth prospects after a disastrous year. While optimism is good and much needed, the survey mostly ignoring the migrant and jobs crisis is glaring. How well India turns the corner depends on resolving the serious problems in the financial sector.
First Parliament session of decade must set the right tone, build consensus & end rancour
PM Modi is right the coming decade is vital for India’s progress. The first Parliament session of the decade has, however, started on a sour note. The government must engage with the recalcitrant opposition, build consensus on farm reform laws, and end rancour – both in Parliament and on the streets.
UP Police FIR is brazen intimidation of media, govts cannot lash out at the messenger
UP Police FIR against senior journalists accusing them of sedition is deeply disturbing and completely out of line. This is brazen intimidation of the media and must be withdrawn immediately. Governments under pressure cannot lash out at the messenger. That’s the hallmark of authoritarian regimes, not the world’s largest democracy.
we are also seeing your glaring pessimism despite the fact that we hade highest GST coolection at 120000 crores which is not possible without increasing economic activity. it;s enough. we are just fed up of unnecessary pessimism spread by journals like yours.
had there been a hugh umemployment, the farmers’s agitation would taken a much more uglier turn.
Your own headline:
GST revenue at all-time high of Rs 1.20 lakh crore in January 2021,
Can only get better if ” migrant and jobs crisis” are addressed today in the Budget
I am happy Print does not restrict readers to 50 words in this hallowed space.
Read Ms Puja Mehra’s Lost Decade 2008 – 2018. A country with so many young, aspirational citizens cannot afford another lost decade. The GFC and the pandemic were exceptional events, but they do not satisfactorily explain why the Indian economy is losing growth momentum. 2. The government matters much more to the future of citizens in India than in the United States, another deeply divided, politically polarised society. The increasing dysfunction in Parliament has not served the country well. There is nothing in the record of the last seven years to suggest infallibility. Humility, a willingness to treat the Opposition in Delhi and the states as legitimate partners and stakeholders would help make this a better decade.
Sedition charges are being dispensed like bhel puri at Chowpatty. At this rate, they will lose their grave import. It is pointless to refer to the clear guidelines laid down by the honourable apex court in 1962, since police forces all over the country disregard them like a warm zephyr on the beach. 2. The UP government does not like sunshine. Recall how strenuously it prevented the rest of the world, most of all journalists doing their jobs, from visiting Hathras. 3. Cutting off water and electricity to the protest sites. Encouraging local residents to confront the peacefully protesting farmers. All these ploys will move the atmosphere away from what is needed find a graceful solution.