In an exclusive interview, Niti Aayog’s health and nutrition adviser Alok Kumar tells ThePrint that India has done way better than other countries with similar Covid numbers.
Niti Aayog and NIC will conduct the assessment. A Data Governance Quality Index scorecard will be prepared based on the results and the ministries will be ranked.
As concerns were raised over changes in labour laws in various states, Kumar said the central government was committed to protecting the interests of workers.
Niti Aayog will conduct surveys every 2-3 weeks and collate results to see if govt messaging on Covid has reached districts and if govt machinery is working at that level.
We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Scrapping the Planning Commission was a wise act. There the matter should have rested. What Niti Aayog has contributed to the economic development of India – beyond an occasional, tiny uptick in the Ease of Doing Business index – remains an enduring mystery.
1. Bypass upsc
2. Introduce cronies and their agents.
3. Hallowing out govt capacity like it happened in UK
4. Bypass reservation.
5. Bypass talented who clear from lakhs of student and hire foreign Univ educated persons, most of whom are upper caste and form bjp’s NRI support.
6. Degrade Indian universities despite huge talent and competition and value foreign Univ trained moneyed individuals who claim domain expertise.
7. Form policies which has no ground connect and understanding. Only it has ideological underpinning of market liberal fundamentalism which is thoroughly discarded in the West and Europe. This only benefits top 5% of Indian population who have become core BJP supporters.
Ex. Agri reforms-most benefit to traders, core bup supporters. On the other hand excess imports, arbitratrary export ban benefitted traders and leads to losses of farmers kept untouched.
Ex. 2 plight of migrant, labour laws.
You have crony govt. Only more sophisticated than UPA 2 and manages media well. They will only want bigger slice of pie and ignoring size of pie.
It’s against the spirit , rights and scope of the citizens of India.
Scrapping the Planning Commission was a wise act. There the matter should have rested. What Niti Aayog has contributed to the economic development of India – beyond an occasional, tiny uptick in the Ease of Doing Business index – remains an enduring mystery.
1. Bypass upsc
2. Introduce cronies and their agents.
3. Hallowing out govt capacity like it happened in UK
4. Bypass reservation.
5. Bypass talented who clear from lakhs of student and hire foreign Univ educated persons, most of whom are upper caste and form bjp’s NRI support.
6. Degrade Indian universities despite huge talent and competition and value foreign Univ trained moneyed individuals who claim domain expertise.
7. Form policies which has no ground connect and understanding. Only it has ideological underpinning of market liberal fundamentalism which is thoroughly discarded in the West and Europe. This only benefits top 5% of Indian population who have become core BJP supporters.
Ex. Agri reforms-most benefit to traders, core bup supporters. On the other hand excess imports, arbitratrary export ban benefitted traders and leads to losses of farmers kept untouched.
Ex. 2 plight of migrant, labour laws.
You have crony govt. Only more sophisticated than UPA 2 and manages media well. They will only want bigger slice of pie and ignoring size of pie.