Power generation is as critical to humans as water, education, and healthcare. The government has goofed badly on all these front
At first glance, India has done quite impressively on the power generation front. Statistics from the Central Electricity...
Government favours importers of pulses not Indian farmers
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Last week farmers decided to approach the Supreme Court of India to seek redressal of the government’s pulses policy. Normally, the government takes...
Dreams of a Ferrari on India’s potholed roads
By RN Bhaskar
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The Union Budget should get announced within days of this column being put out in public domain. There is abundant speculation that the government will pull...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-emerging-as-aircraft-repair-hub-r-n-bhaskar/1255629
Will the govt allow India's AIESL to emerge as Asia's aircraft repair hub?
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 12, 2018
Last month, the government announced that it had appointed the consultancy firm EY as the transaction advisor for Air India’s strategic sale...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-how-aadhaarpan-could-threaten-banking-and-financial-integrity
Article 139AA has created a big money laundering machine in India
RN Bhaskar
On 27 October 2020, there was a Twitter chat— “Curious case of PAN-Aadhaar linkage” -- that was organised by the prestigious Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). It raised...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/coins-judicial-overreach-or-administrative-underreach-r-n-bhaskar/920234
Does the govt have any policy for coins at all?
Once again, the courts have to take charge of simple administrative decisions. This is primarily on account of the ineptness on the part of the executive. Contributing to this flaw...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-droning-government-and-its-wake-up-call-for-drones
The government wakes up to the urgent need to open u0p the market for drones
RN Bhaskar
You can always count on the Indian government to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. (With apologies to Winston Churchill)
Roll...
USA trips India on oil
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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President Donald J Trump is having a field day. He has succeeded in tripping up Venezuela. In spite of having the world’s largest reserves of oil, Venezuela’s...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-states-amazing-feat-of-de-risking-farmers/1073810
How did Maharashtra manage to de-risk farmers?
— By RN Bhaskar | May 25, 2017 07:27 am
Maharashtra is a rich state where its farmers are poor. And it isn’t because they don’t get loan waivers. Farmers remain poor primarily because they’ve been...
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...
