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will NDTV have an open discussion on this article with Mr. Gupta? After all there are some positive things about the government do not know if they fit in the editorial policy of NDTV.
Good to know that NPAs are reduced due to bankruptcy proceedings and NCLT. However, at what cost? Why not the shortfall or written off amount by different banks should be recovered from the assets of the Directors of the Company which defaulted in the repayment of borrowed amount.
BPCL’S PROPOSED SALEWILL TURN OUT BE THE BIGGEST ALBATROSS AROUND THE NECK OF MODI . IN INDIA , AS OF NOW, SIX COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED IN PETROLEUM MARKETING .AND BPCL IS FAR AHEAD OF THE FIVE OF THE COMPANIES . THE COMPANY , WHICH THE BPCL CANNOT MATCH IS A KIND OF PARENT OF BPCL . IF THE GOVERNMENT MEANT BUSINESS IT SHOULD HAVE SOLD OFF BOTH IOCL & HPCL AND ACCEPTED EVEN A LESSER VALUE FROM BIDDERS FOR AIR INDIA . GST FOR GOVERNMENT IS LIKE HOLDING ON TO A LION’S TAIL . THE DENOUEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF PROBIR SEN IS YET TO BE PLAYED OUT . WHILE ON THIS IT IS PERTINENT TO RECALL THAT IN 1956 THE THEN CHINESE PREMIER ZHOU EN LAI OVERSTAYED HIS OFFICIAL VISIT TO INDIA IMPRESSED BY INDIA’S ABILITY IN COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING DATA ON ECONOMY . EVEN TODAY THE WORLD BANK USES SOME OF THE METHODS THAT PC MAHALANOBIS INTRODUCED IN THE 50S . THE METHODS EMPLOYED BY NSS WERE BEING USED IN MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD TO ARRIVE AT DATA ; BUT THE MODI GOVERNMENT HAS ,TWICE IN THE RECENT PAST , REPUDIATED THE DATA OF THE NSS FORCING ITS DIRECTOR TO QUIT . IN FACT, THE VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT’S TINKERING WITH THE METHODOLOGY TO SUIT ITS POLITICAL NARRATIVE STARTED MAKING INDIAN DATA SUSPECT IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD AND THAT SUSPICION HAS BEEN REINFORCED BY MODI GOVERNMENT’S RECENT REPUDIATIONS OF ITS OWN DATA AS IT DID NOT SEEM TO SUIT ITS POLITICAL NARRATIVE
This guy Shekhar Gupta was unemployed for a long time after leaving The Indian Express. Now, funded by Nandan Nilkeni and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, he can’t hurt their money, and risk being unemployed again. People like him are the bane of India, but he struts around like a peacock.
will NDTV have an open discussion on this article with Mr. Gupta? After all there are some positive things about the government do not know if they fit in the editorial policy of NDTV.
Good to know that NPAs are reduced due to bankruptcy proceedings and NCLT. However, at what cost? Why not the shortfall or written off amount by different banks should be recovered from the assets of the Directors of the Company which defaulted in the repayment of borrowed amount.
BPCL’S PROPOSED SALEWILL TURN OUT BE THE BIGGEST ALBATROSS AROUND THE NECK OF MODI . IN INDIA , AS OF NOW, SIX COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED IN PETROLEUM MARKETING .AND BPCL IS FAR AHEAD OF THE FIVE OF THE COMPANIES . THE COMPANY , WHICH THE BPCL CANNOT MATCH IS A KIND OF PARENT OF BPCL . IF THE GOVERNMENT MEANT BUSINESS IT SHOULD HAVE SOLD OFF BOTH IOCL & HPCL AND ACCEPTED EVEN A LESSER VALUE FROM BIDDERS FOR AIR INDIA . GST FOR GOVERNMENT IS LIKE HOLDING ON TO A LION’S TAIL . THE DENOUEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF PROBIR SEN IS YET TO BE PLAYED OUT . WHILE ON THIS IT IS PERTINENT TO RECALL THAT IN 1956 THE THEN CHINESE PREMIER ZHOU EN LAI OVERSTAYED HIS OFFICIAL VISIT TO INDIA IMPRESSED BY INDIA’S ABILITY IN COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING DATA ON ECONOMY . EVEN TODAY THE WORLD BANK USES SOME OF THE METHODS THAT PC MAHALANOBIS INTRODUCED IN THE 50S . THE METHODS EMPLOYED BY NSS WERE BEING USED IN MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD TO ARRIVE AT DATA ; BUT THE MODI GOVERNMENT HAS ,TWICE IN THE RECENT PAST , REPUDIATED THE DATA OF THE NSS FORCING ITS DIRECTOR TO QUIT . IN FACT, THE VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT’S TINKERING WITH THE METHODOLOGY TO SUIT ITS POLITICAL NARRATIVE STARTED MAKING INDIAN DATA SUSPECT IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD AND THAT SUSPICION HAS BEEN REINFORCED BY MODI GOVERNMENT’S RECENT REPUDIATIONS OF ITS OWN DATA AS IT DID NOT SEEM TO SUIT ITS POLITICAL NARRATIVE
Mr.Guptaji knows how to BLOW HOT and COLD.
This guy Shekhar Gupta was unemployed for a long time after leaving The Indian Express. Now, funded by Nandan Nilkeni and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, he can’t hurt their money, and risk being unemployed again. People like him are the bane of India, but he struts around like a peacock.
Wow looks like you have nothing better to do them follow Gupta’s life and career. You seem to be pretty unemployed yourself.
Yes, credit must me given where credit is due.
Guptaji, thanks for spending the last few hours of the decade just gone by, in discovering and putting all these out. You must indeed be a brave man!
calling spade a spade….this is one of reasons to follow print