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Surging GNPAs are symptoms of a deeper malaise in governance
By RN Bhaskar
The cabinet reshuffle is over. At the end it looked like another tamasha. A colossal waste of time, just when all energies were required to bring India back...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rural-incomes-worse-than-previously-imagined-r-n-bhaskar/1340980
The rural sector earns very little says Nabard
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 23, 2018
The latest Nabard survey on All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17 -- https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417NABARD-Repo-16_Web_P.pdf -- points to a bigger farm crisis than had been imagined earlier.
Just take...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-fresh-evidence-confirms-agreement-on-limiting-nato-in-russia-ukraine-crisis
Ukraine - The US rings the death knell for global banking and business
RN Bhaskar
This is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper
-- TS. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’
Ever since the Ukraine Russia US conflict...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-slums-3-indias-myopic-votebank-policies-now-threaten-lifestyles-liberties-and-even-human-lives
Slums 3
India's myopia is threatening life across the world
No matter what the government may say, the Covid infections have already claimed 5 million lives in India (https://asiaconverge.com/2021/08/slums-1-big-danger-ahead-pandemic-and-possibly-mass-extermination/). The strong correlationship between Covid infested cities and slums cannot be denied...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-government-should-not-be-trusted-with-banks/1198570
The government is responsible for bank NPAs
— By RN Bhaskar | Jan 04, 2018 08:34 am
A seminal document, that CARE Ratings brought out on December 27, 2017, showed how precariously perched India’s banks are.
In that list (see chart alongside) CARE Ratings...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/commodity-trading-promise-vs-performance
Commodity trading – promise vs performance
RN Bhaskar
The government makes tall claims about protecting the farmers, and ensuring that agriculture remains vibrant. Such claims are quite enticing and appealing, till the cynic decides to scratch below the glitz. That...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/npa-albatross-around-banks-neck-rn-bhaskar/857767
The scourge of NPAs
The markets are still reeling. They are trying to cope with the NPA burden. Estimated at Rs.4 lakh crore, NPAs threaten to become almost 1.5 times the cumulative market capitalization of these banks. Some of these...
A huge educational crisis confronts India – can it be saved?
By RN Bhaskar
In October 2004, IITD (Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi) ranked 13th in the first edition of the QS University Rankings (https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/brics-rankings/top-universities-india). By 2024, its ranking had...
Talk to high net worth individuals (HNIs) and non-resident Indians (NRIs). They express tremendous anxiety over the provisions of the government’s new piece of legislation. This spells trouble for all of us, even if we are largely law-abiding, they...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/transform-india-through-jobs-wealth-generation/1536648
Wealth generation and jobs are urgently needed
RN Bhaskar – May 30, 2019
The new government is in place, with a larger mandate than the previous one. Obviously, people expect it to fulfill their aspirations.
The trouble is that jobs and wealth...
