Modi govt has made actual legal changes to implement its policy statements on agriculture reforms. It should now plug loopholes to realise their full potential.
Modi has always found a way to achieve his political goals— Article 370 to Ram Mandir. Shekhar Gupta can’t blame the PM's bureaucrats for his economic failures.
Industrialisation is key because agriculture remains highly unproductive with 43.2 per cent share of total employment but contributes only 14.6 per cent to GDP.
India has once again lived up to reputation of using a crisis to unleash difficult reforms. Nirmala Sitharaman has introduced bold reforms in holy cow sectors like agriculture and defence.
JNU debate can’t be restricted to which university charges more fees. Reality is public universities today are hard put to maintain financial equilibrium.
Army Commander is posted to Army Training Command not based on aptitude but as & when a vacancy occurs. If you don’t give best resources, don’t expect best results.
With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
Let’s wait and watch. Hopefully this will not turn out to be like power sector ‘reforms’ where actually nothing was reformed. This government’s record doesn’t inspiremuch confidence. For the past 70+ years governments in India have largely succeeded in making a complete mess of it’s most important sector agriculture.
Excellent article. I suspect as usual the vested interest of the bureaucracy is in fault. The law changes seems to be thought by economists but lawyers and bureaucrats wanted their cuts to be maintained.
if even after amendment of the ECA govts. can impose unpredictable impositions, thanks to some vaguely defined terms and conditions, then what new actually has been done. Let’s wait n watch till the seasonal spike in prices of onion n tomatoes.
Let’s wait and watch. Hopefully this will not turn out to be like power sector ‘reforms’ where actually nothing was reformed. This government’s record doesn’t inspiremuch confidence. For the past 70+ years governments in India have largely succeeded in making a complete mess of it’s most important sector agriculture.
Excellent article. I suspect as usual the vested interest of the bureaucracy is in fault. The law changes seems to be thought by economists but lawyers and bureaucrats wanted their cuts to be maintained.
if even after amendment of the ECA govts. can impose unpredictable impositions, thanks to some vaguely defined terms and conditions, then what new actually has been done. Let’s wait n watch till the seasonal spike in prices of onion n tomatoes.