Policy Watch

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...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-the-war-over-e-payments-and-digitisation/1062135 Policy watch The Watal report: The war over epayments and digitisation Rn bhaskar There is a unspoken of war within the government.  Everybody wants to take charge of epayments and digitisation. But none wants to take up owning responsibility Look at the facts. ...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/geography-economics-history-and-culture-heres-why-india-and-china-need-each-other How should India view China? RN Bhaskar - July 2, 2020 At times of war, it is dangerous to talk of peace.  As the poet TS Eliot once remarked (through the lips of Aunt Agatha in A Family Reunion), “In a...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bank-mergers-abracadabra-mess-vanishes-r-n-bhaskar/1363483 Bank mergers, LIC and IL&FS: abracadabra! See the mess has disappeared! — By RN Bhaskar | Sep 27, 2018 There is trouble that is bubbling inside India’s financial cauldron. The three witches cackle, stir their brooms in the broth, and chant incantations that...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/is-the-telecommunications-sector-being-skewered The decimation of the Indian telecom sector? RN Bhaskar  -- October 31, 2019 Do policymakers in India secretly harbor a death-wish? The question was uppermost in the minds of most people immediately after the Supreme Court’s ruling last week (https://clpr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cellular-Operators-v.-TRAI.pdf)  that...

India’s net FDI is a pointer to a deeper malaise By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img On May 23, 2025, media headlines announced (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indias-net-fdi-crashes-96-5-in-fy25-lowest-on-record/articleshow/121353121.cms) that India’s net FDI had plummeted by a shocking 96%.  This was the lowest it had slipped. ...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-will-your-milk-be-delivered-home Milk, subsidies, turbulence and coronavirus RN Bhaskar – April 9, 2020 Last fortnight, milk was in the spotlight once again.  And this time ostensibly because of the coronavirus lockdown. Some milk producers began crying wolf. They said that milk supplies to Mumbai...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/r-n-bhaskar-india-losing-despite-onward-march-of-renewables/1089333 The onward march of renewables. . . . . . but India may lose a big opportunity — By R N Bhaskar | Jun 22, 2017 07:15 am The US has walked out of the Paris agreement for containing green house gas (GHG) emissions. ...

Splurge even if you are going bankrupt RN Bhaskar Most economists agree that governments can either control interest rates, or exchange rates.  They cannot do both.  If the government controls interest rates to tamp down inflation, then the repercussions will be...

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-how-sc-upheld-community-s-right-to-manage-funds-1953862 How the Hindus lost control of their temples, gods and culture In a landmark judgement on January 6, the Supreme Court ruled that no government had the absolute right to take over the management of temple trusts It ruled that Article...