In the interim pay the food and fertiliser beneficiaries through DBT. Doing away with subsidies and instead extending income support...
Despite several inadequacies, it appears that status quo will prevail for quite a while. An interesting revelation in the just...
At under 15% of GDP, the Union Budget by itself, even after taking into account smaller state budgets, can tackle...
Given the state of the economy and the limited room for further taxation, the government will do well to concentrate...
Reckoning with the constraints in Union Budget 2021-22. In balancing the numerous contending demands for financial and other state support...
The fortnight-long US experience rolling out the vaccine has already shown that global availability will be a critical issue to...
The first task at hand, and already underway, is identifying the vaccine most appropriate, available and affordable for India. ...
There should be a concrete draft of intentions that invites informed comments. No one can argue against the proposition that...
If the emphasis is going to be on reverting back to the Nehruvian-Indira Gandhi era of high import duties and...
Greater labour flexibility also demands the strengthening of social security to workers; both in terms of its applicability and in...
Most employers have broadly welcomed these codes, hoping that they would make production more competitive. Conversely, most workers, unions and...
At the end of the day, the Indian farmer must be enabled through regulatory and other policy support, to get...
For decades now, most political parties had been vocal about ending the monopoly of APMCs in buying farmers’ produce. Now...
The time has come for revisiting the entire gamut of issues concerning the Centre-State financial relationship. Several recent developments...
Our Constitution is more unitary than federal. History was written on 26 January 1950 when India was declared a...
We need to remain cognizant that no countrywide silver bullet to our higher education problems exists given the great diversity...
With NEP20 suggesting five years of formalised foundational education for all the 73 mn children, plus 10 years of regular...
A rare silver lining of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is the attention it has forced to addressing the public health...
Perhaps most worrisome is India’s gross inability to spend more on health, the starting point for any change. Policymakers...
While the role of private enterprise will be paramount, the State must act unhesitatingly as an active enabler for the...
We need to reframe ‘development’ away from aggregate measures of growth towards a sharper, more telling focus on the advancement...
While the Chinese economy may be four and a half times India’s, it is still a developing nation, and similar...
The overarching design of policies must start with the bottom of the pyramid. New Delhi: For far too long,...
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