The minister for human resource development, Kapil Sibal, is a man in a hurry. His haste would be welcome, if the government’s proposals for higher education were not so scandalous. Amazingly, despite a few distinguished voices of dissent, there has been no national debate on the United Progressive Alliance government’s plans. Existing state and Central universities, likely to be worst affected by the broom of change, seem reconciled to their...
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Postmodern principles should form the foundation of JNNURM by Sameer Sharma
THE ongoing negotiations with the World Bank provide an opportunity to urban policymakers to reinvent the present form of JNNURM (called v1.0). Thus far JNNURM v1.0 has focused on upgrading macro-level dimensions of city’s environment, ignoring the social and economic diversity (e.g., mixed uses and building types) prevailing in urban areas. The top-down urban ‘renewal’ model underlying the present version of JNNURM is largely founded on the planning practices of...
More »Expand and re-orient NREGA by PS Appu
The recession is a promising moment to expand NREGA with greater emphasis on building social capital in a big way. Soon after assuming office, the first UPA government took an impressive step for the alleviation of rural poverty by launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. It was, indeed, a wise move to insulate the programme from the vicissitudes of electoral politics by enacting the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
More »बाढ़ के पानी में भोजन का अधिकार विधेयक
आंध्रप्रदेश, कर्नाटक और महाराष्ट्र में जारी बाढ़ से लाखों की तादाद में ग्रामीण गरीबी रेखा से नीचे आ गए हैं। बाढ़ की विभीषिका तो थमने का नाम नहीं ले रही है लेकिन इस विभीषिका से, गरीबी रेखा से नीचे रहने वाले परिवारों की गणना के लिए जो मानक प्रस्तावित भोजन का अधिकार विधेयक के संकल्प पत्र में सुझाये गए हैं, उनकी पोल जरुर खुल गई है। अकेले आंध्रप्रदेश और कर्नाटक...
More »Miss the wood for the trees by Sudhirendar Sharma
Age was no deterrent to his passion and determination. Till he lost to cancer on September 12, Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug relentlessly fought his arch enemy, the rust fungus, which had engaged him since he first landed in Mexico in 1944 to breed shorter, straighter, stronger wheat which were to liberate the world from hunger over next decades. His brilliance of pulling India out of ‘ship-to-mouth’ existence is well known....
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