R N Bhaskar
March 3, 2014
The Maharashtra government has just tabled a bill to change the cutoff date for recognising slums - from 1995 to 2000. This is against a Bombay High Court order, which was challenged by the state,...
Mumbai’s traffic police has huge gaps in its service delivery
RN Bhaskar
Mumbai has a glorious record of having an efficient police force. But, over the years, the starch in the upright image of the force is getting crumpled. Even past...
Budget 2023 looks great, but has little for agriculture which accounts for half of India’s jobs
RN Bhaskar
The claims are tantalizing. The budget proposals look wonderful. But much of the expectation of growth in the economy will eventually depend on...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/doles-freebies-elections-and-the-absence-of-accountability/1496631
Lots more doles mean much more corruption
RN Bhaskar April 4, 2019
The dice was rolled two years ago when the present government permitted loan waivers in Uttar Pradesh. The fire was bound to spread. But even before that, the concept...
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/analysis-policy-watch-converting-waste-into-energy-can-spell-end-of-garbage-mafia-2009622
Waste-management: Converting waste to energy can spell end of garbage mafia
It is quite possible that Bangalore could set the stage for a national policy on waste management.
It was, after all, this city's municipal corporation (Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, or...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/verghese-kuriens-milk-model-curdled
How the government has curdled the Verghese Kurien’s milk model
RN Bhaskar -- 20 February, 2020
If you can read the tea leaves – you can predict that the government will decimate the Kurien model for milk production, nutrition and growth...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/gms-needs-polishing-for-brighter-glow/716007
The Gold Monetisation scheme deserves to be better implemented
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 19, 2015 12:00 am
It is heartening to see the government pushing the GMS (Gold Monetisation Scheme). After decades, the government has finally become quite serious about mobilising...
Who will bridge promise and performance?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Picture source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHRpM2iNU
Government engineers and supervisors can be terribly incompetent even capricious. Two data points provide ample evidence of this. The first is how two parts of a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/expect-2018-to-be-more-unsettling-than-2017/1178960
An unsettling 2018
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 30, 2017 07:52 am
Most marketmen are a bit confused about what the markets and the leading economies have in store for 2018. The first of such reports is already out. Credit Suisse...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/post-demonetisation-three-steps-that-the-government-should-take/976762
Three steps to make demonetisation work
The die has been cast. Currency notes of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 denominations have been rendered illegal sinnce the midnight of 8 November, 2016. The government carefully avoided the term “demonetisation” because that would require...
