https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-to-drink-4082681.html
Water series #4: abundance and penury in India
RN Bhaskar -- 11 June 2019
(Other articles in this series are listed below)
The title lines, taken from Samuel Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could sum up India’s pathetic condition...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/from-investment-outlay-to-farmers-welfare-five-mistakes-one-must-avoid-while-reading-budget-2021
Budget 2021 has a lot of hype, and does not deal with many fundamental issues
By R.N.Bhaskar -- 1 February, 2021
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All the Budget 2021 articles can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-series/
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While the markets are euphoric and people close to the government...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/farmers-on-the-war-path-solution-lies-not-in-msp-but-in-giving-farmers-a-share-in-the-revenue-5313951.html
Farmers on the warpath – expected and inevitable
RN Bhaskar - Oct 4, 2018
In many ways, the agitation by farmers around Delhi and Gaziabad was to have been expected. India is moving rapidly towards general elections. Each constituent of India’s...
https://www.indiaratings.co.in/PressRelease?pressReleaseID=52222&title=rural-demand-to-support-economic-recovery%2C-but-cannot-substitute-for-urban-demand-
India has specialised in the plunder of productive states
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The other parts of this series can be found at
http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/the-plunder-series/
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RN Bhaskar -- 3 September 2020
The government says it has no money for paying states their share of GST. There is money,...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/splurging-money-on-mega-welfare-schemes-sans-planning-not-wise-govt-should-find-a-way-to-make-them-productive-6154241.html
From splurge to dirge – this this the future for India?
RN Bhaskar -- Feb 26, 2019
In the few months leading to the general elections, the government has launched least two ‘largest-in-the-world’ schemes. One is the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2017-should-look-at-these-7-areas-to-kick-start-economy-create-jobs-3216160.html
Budget 2017: seven things that could help government galvanise economy and create jobs
Jobs needed desperately. That was the writing on the wall even in 2014. The refrain continues even for Budget 2017. Yet, 2014 was when Prime Minister Narendra...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-the-problem-of-citizenship-and-slum-votebanks-and-the-work-permit-solution-2570637.html
Citizenship, votebanks, the Northeast and the need for work permits
RN Bhaskar -- May 17, 2018
Last week, the low-hanging clouds burst, both literally and figuratively. Even as rains descended on parts of the Northeast, the whole region rumbled with sounds...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/law-and-judiciary-more-sloganeering-less-vision
The judicial and the extra-judicial -- will there be a faceoff?
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar
India has always been good at coining phrases. They sound impressive. They suggest a caring and concerned...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/a-solution-to-indias-parking-hawker-problem-that-kills-graft-rewards-investors-unclutters-roads-2453549.html
Mumbai's parking and hawker problem can be solved quite easily if the authorities want to
Instead of letting hawkers occupy existing open spaces, the government should allow for more parking-cum-hawking multiplexes. Developers will be happy. So will motorists and...
A variant of this article appeared at Moneycontrol (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/the-government-should-set-an-example-to-the-private-sector-on-corporate-governance-4599811.html)
Good governance must begin with the government
RN Bhaskar – 25 October, 2019
In July 2019, the government passed the The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It also pointed to the rule book and...
