Not Worth The Parchment?
Many A Slip To The Sip • 30 Number of Indian cities where private sector and MNCs have been roped in by civic bodies to manage the water supply. • 0 No project has so far delivered on lofty commitments;
Lola Nayar
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The Doctor Only Knows Economics
This could be the UPA’s worst cut to its beloved aam admi. Healthcare has virtually been handed over to privateers. India is taking firm steps to a certain health disaster. All of 80 per cent of healthcare
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Mind The Crease
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is trying to re-establish his ‘farmer-friendly’ politician image but it’s been hard going with the flip-flop on commodity exports and rising farmer suicides. In
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Cagey Basin
On the face of it, the Union petroleum ministry has finally taken some action in its slow-fuse battle with Reliance Industries over the D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin. A long legal arbitration
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Thy Foreign, Lying Hand, Great Anarch
That Predictable Strong Arm Anti-GM crop NGOs come under fire as a draft bill threatens arrest of activists who provoke fear against GM technology without “scientific evidence” NGOs “linked
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Seeds Of Change
Competition is tough in the seed market, which may explain why marketing gimmicks are often used to woo farmers. It’s tougher still for the farmers to get compensation when the claims fail and they are
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Extension Of Woes
A 20-ft-wide nallah (drain) divides the villages of Shahberi in Noida Extension and Dundahera in Ghaziabad. But these two places in the same state are light years apart when it comes to land acquisition.
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Just A Pipe Dream
Irrigation is anything but accelerated under AIBPNo Water, No Cry The scheme and the scam Rs 45000 cr Allocated for 283 canal projects under Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme since 1996-97 90% Projects delayed, leading to cost and time overruns 2-8 years Delay due to poor monitoring 28-916% Cost overrun due to delays 1250000 hectares Ultimate irrigation potential
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How To Add Up A Zero Sum
A seasoned politician, equally at ease with economic and political matters of state, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has sent out feelgood signals while charting an opaque course of action in a zero-sum budget. The politics is easily explained: four states are set to go to polls within three months.