https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-indian-railways-is-headed-for-big-trouble-3364721.html
Indian Railways faces tough times in the coming years
Looking at some of Nitin Gadkari's ideas would be a good place to start to fix railways' problems.
RN Bhaskar – 8 January 2019
Senior officials of the Indian Railways recently hauled up...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/railway-lessons-for-india-with-love-from-japan/
Railway lessons for India: With love, from Japan
— By R N Bhaskar | Nov 26, 2015 12:09 am
India once boasted of having one of the largest railway networks in the world – thanks to the British. But it slipped in...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-not-new-courses-or-new-institutes-make-graduates-employable-4897131.html/amp
Has the government forgotten school education?
RN Bhaskar -- 3 Feb 2020
I propose to set up a project preparation facility for infrastructure projects. This programme would actively involve young engineers, management graduates and economists from our Universities.
It is also proposed...
An abridged version of this article can be found at
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-solar-alliance-can-match-opec-only-if-ground-rules-are-modified-3027551.html
Can the International Solar Alliance match OPEC?
RN Bhaskar -- Oct 10, 2018
The occasion was the first assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The speaker was Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-russia-could-be-the-next-big-market-for-indian-labour-as-low-oil-prices-depress-the-gulf-3263601.html
Remittances surge, but there is a dark cloud for India's labour
As oil prices soften, there are fears that job creation in the Middle East will decline, and India could lose some workers there.
RN Bhaskar -- Dec 07, 2018
Despite fears...
https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fanciful-figures-of-uttar-pradesh/64715.html
Uttar Pradesh and the numbers it conjures up
RN Bhaskar
When prime minister Narendra Modi described the Covid management of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as “commendable”, or even “unprecedented”, it made even the most neutral of economy watchers squirm uncomfortably. The same...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/now-private-banks-too-are-getting-tarnished/1260481
AIBEA should focus more on private bank malpractices
RN Bhaskar -- Apr 19, 2018
Stories about wheeling dealing that managements of private sector banks have indulged in have suddenly put the spotlight on such banks. Hitherto, the focus was on mismanagement...
https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/proliferation-of-fake-aadhaar-cards-and-false-jandhan-bank-accounts-pose-a-serious-threat-to-proper-use-of-the-centres-expenditure-under-centrally-sponsored-schemes/?swcfpc=1
Will the CAG help in cleaning up the rot in India's financial allocations?
This post can also be found at https://bhaskarr.substack.com/p/a-complaint-letter-to-the-cag-by?sd=pf.
On 16 May, 2023, E A S Sarma, former Secretary to the Government of India wrote an email letter of...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/union-budget-2019-will-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-be-able-to-salvage-the-agriculture-sector-6872501.html
Union Budget 2019: Will the Union Budget salvage the agriculture sector?
RN Bhaskar – June 24, 2019
Within a few weeks, the government will unveil its financial programmes for India. This time the budget will be watched more keenly than at...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-oil-at-250-a-barrel-how-we-could-get-there-and-indias-quandary-2706781.html
US misadventures with Iran could push oil to $250 a barrel, leaving stark choices for India
RN Bhaskar -- Jul 13, 2018
With scary forecasts doing the rounds over the price of crude oil, Artem Avinov, leading analyst with TeleTrade, was...
