https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/good-governance-begins-at-home-itself
India's problem with governance
RN Bhaskar – 07 November, 2019
In July 2019, the government passed the The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It also pointed to the rule book and to the penalties that could be levied in case corporate governance...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-banks-in-a-web-of-student-loans-and-courts/751626
Banks in a web of student loans and courts
— By RN Bhaskar | Jan 07, 2016 02:20 am
Last month, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ruled that an educational-loan cannot be rejected merely on the grounds that the...
The govt continues to push other types of Census, but nor for its human population
RN Bhaskar
On 24 JUN 2024, the government announced (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2028221) that it would soon begin work on the 21st Livestock Census. The Livestock Census is conducted...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-rot-begins-at-schools-2105831
The rot begins at schools
"Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school. School education is the most enduring way to...
The malaise in higher education
RN Bhaskar
If one goes by news items – often peddled out by the government -- the country is on a roll. All sectors are doing well. That includes higher education. And India should become the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/higher-education-sinks-lower-in-india/835496
Learn from China. Focus on schools; leave higher education alone
The age of ironies has just begun.
There was a time when India used to be a centre of learning and higher education. Huen Tsang (known as Monk Xuan Zang in...
R N Bhaskar
February 3, 2014
Eventually, all ratings of domestic companies depend sorely on sovereign ratings. That was something Pradeep Shah, the founding managing director of Crisil, was never tired of reminding investors.
Translated, it means that if the sovereign rating...
India will be promoting poverty — a hole for people to fall into
By RN Bhaskar
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When it comes to development and increasing the prosperity of common folk, India needs to take a lesson or two from what...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-budget-2022-is-high-on-big-plans-short-on-a-reality-check
Budget-22: Sightless and derelict
RN Bhaskar
Everybody was aware that the three critical problems confronting India are unemployment, health, and education. One expected Budget-22 to address them.
To some extent, the employment issue may have been addressed (not entirely though). But health...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-maharashtra-abetting-drought-farmer-distress/1392278
Maharashta promotes water scarcity and abets farm suicides
RN Bhaskar November 8, 2018
Last week, media headlines screamed out news that nearly 71% of the state of Maharashtra had registered a drop of more than a metre of groundwater...
