It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's desire to turn Bihar into UP should not be ignored.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
By holding auctions for coal blocks, the NDA thought it would put up a big show of being transparent and show great revenue earnings. The high auction bids made further development of the coal blocks unviable. It is only now that the global practice of auctionless coal block allocation becomes evident , along with the basic wisdom of the MMS Govt policy.
Since the private coal sector is now hobbled, the author is forced to look up to Coal India for greater supplies by land acquisition and aggressive forest clearances , with adverse environmental impact.
There is no justification for the discoms to be in a mess, after UDAY took two trillion of debt off their shoulders and flipped it to the respective state governments. There is no point having State Electricity Regulatory Commissions if the pricing of power, mainly to farmers, remains completely politically determined. India cannot afford a bailout for the power sector – or a massive farm loan waiver – once every five years, just before or just after each election. So many private power plants are idling capacity because the discoms are too broke to buy more of it from them. Power, like banking, is a foundational sector that energises the entire economy. The expansion of renewables is also getting stunted because of the poor financial condition of the discoms. If there is a body like Niti Aayog, these are the issues it should be focusing on.
By holding auctions for coal blocks, the NDA thought it would put up a big show of being transparent and show great revenue earnings. The high auction bids made further development of the coal blocks unviable. It is only now that the global practice of auctionless coal block allocation becomes evident , along with the basic wisdom of the MMS Govt policy.
Since the private coal sector is now hobbled, the author is forced to look up to Coal India for greater supplies by land acquisition and aggressive forest clearances , with adverse environmental impact.
There is no justification for the discoms to be in a mess, after UDAY took two trillion of debt off their shoulders and flipped it to the respective state governments. There is no point having State Electricity Regulatory Commissions if the pricing of power, mainly to farmers, remains completely politically determined. India cannot afford a bailout for the power sector – or a massive farm loan waiver – once every five years, just before or just after each election. So many private power plants are idling capacity because the discoms are too broke to buy more of it from them. Power, like banking, is a foundational sector that energises the entire economy. The expansion of renewables is also getting stunted because of the poor financial condition of the discoms. If there is a body like Niti Aayog, these are the issues it should be focusing on.