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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicSwachh Bharat

Topic: Swachh Bharat

Like Swachh Bharat, Modi wants mission Save Water. Stop free water first

Nitin Pai -
If a commodity is under-priced, like water, it will be overused. Sell petrol for Rs 10 per litre tomorrow and more vehicles will be on the road.

Modi govt’s Swachh Bharat shows why switching to ‘mission mode’ is helping India

Reva Abrol -
From funding flexibility to faster outcomes, government service delivery works better if it is implemented in mission mode and not as a programme.

Modi govt wants IIMs to study, improve flagship schemes like Swachch Bharat and Jan Arogya

Kritika Sharma -
HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has asked all IIMs to select one government scheme, review it and then give recommendations to improve it.

BJP manifesto is high on output, low on outcomes, and pays little attention to policy

TN Ninan -
The manifesto shows Modi’s approach to development: Output is the number of Jan Dhan accounts opened, outcome the number of transactions taking place in them.

Media positive on BJP’s poll budget bonanza

Shailaja Bajpai -
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Maharashtra civil servants will be judged on how well they implement Modi schemes

Manasi Phadke -
The urban development department under CM Devendra Fadnavis has set KRAs for tasks such as Swachh Bharat & Smart Cities mission.

This Indore IAS officer has a solution for India’s garbage problem

Sanya Dhingra -
Asheesh Singh, the Indore municipal commissioner, was behind efforts that cleared 13 lakh tonnes of refuse in just six months through bio-mining. 

Meet the pioneers who are helping the disabled watch movies, get jobs

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Nipman Foundation awards YouTube channel for the deaf, app that helps blind watch films. 

Use of public toilets costs slum dwellers 104 times what those with own toilets spend

Fatima Khan -
Study suggests the high user charges are undermining the benefits of the Modi government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Modi’s rule hasn’t been good for India, he has failed electorate: Manmohan

PTI -
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleged that under the present government, the environment in universities and national institutions like the CBI was being vitiated and dissent stifled.
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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

Shobhaa De -
After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Before Balakot, there was Burki. Lessons from India’s underplayed victory in 1965

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
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.

Defence

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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