Saturday, September 26, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-is-slipping-on-exports-and-employment Focus on two E’s needed – exports and employment RN Bhaskar Work on the coming year’s annual Budget has commenced.  The Finance Minister has invited suggestions from people on what should be done. At the same time, the Economic Affairs secretary...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/budget-2018-focus-on-healthcare-is-good-but-dont-degrade-the-quality-2497317.html Budget 2018: Healthcare is needed, but where are the doctors? According to the plans announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his Budget presentation, each family is covered under the new National Health Protection Scheme. RN Bhaskar - Feb 01, 2018...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-govt-needs-to-assure-foreign-investors-with-stable-laws-4853971.html Pre Budget notes #4 t RN Bhaskar  --  24 January 2020 By now, there is no doubt that India is sliding down a slippery slope.  Even the IMF recently downgraded India’s economic growth to 4.8% for the coming year (https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/sbi/thread-message-79498903-81298903.html).  Privately, economists...
Souece: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/the-story-of-indias-uncertified-deaths-why-the-grim-reaper-cant-link-up-with-aadhaar-2365737.html Death and Aadhaar don't mix R.N.Bhaskar -- Aug 21, 2017 08:07 PM Linking deaths to Aadhaar would have allowed the government to know when to terminate entitlements and direct transfer of benefits to a recipient once deceased. Recently, the government flip-flopped...

Budget 2021 The Budget has been hailed as an "never before" Budget.  Unfortunately, it does not live up to this claim.  Here are some views by RN Bhaskar Feb 1, 2021-- Five mistakes one must avoid while reading Budget 2021 (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-and-myths-surrounding-it/) Budget 2021...
Ukraine -- the war stoked by the US These are some of the articles that RN Bhaskar has written on this subject. 14 February 2022 -- USA does not like Nordstream2, Russia, Germany and even China -- The US is crying...
NMMC tries making money from a notified area of MIDC (Parts II and III of this series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2016/07/extortion-land-grab-navi-mumbais-midc-part-ii/ and http://www.asiaconverge.com/2016/07/extortion-land-grab-navi-mumbais-midc-part-iii/ There’s an ill-wind blowing across the Trans Thane Creek MIDC (popularly known as TTC-MIDC). It is the premier MIDC...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-missing-dead-series-part-iii-can-india-be-taught-to-respect-the-dead The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/06/missing-dead-series/ The missing dead series – Part III How does one ensure that deaths are recorded dutifully in India? RN Bhaskar Last week, he Supreme Court of India chose to reserve verdict on pleas seeking directions...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/the-48-volt-dc-power-disruption-to-bring-about-innovation-in-power-consumption-2430533.html The 48 Volt disruption in power distribution RN Bhaskar - Nov 06, 2017 03:13 PM IST In fact some leading players in the power industry have already begun adapting themselves to cope with the coming disruption. But there are others...
http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/2230114/Free-Press-Mumbai-Edition/06-Jul-2019#page/10/2 More hype, less vision in Budget 2019 RN Bhaskar -- 6 July 2019 The budget 2019 papers have been tabled.  And any person familiar with the heartbeat of the Indian economy knows that many of its prescriptions will just not work. ...