-The Indian Express Reform of grain management system could free up resources for infrastructure investment. With GDP Growth rate plummeting to 4.5 per cent and with the agriculture GDP (GDPA) Growth at 2.1 per cent in the second quarter of this fiscal year, everyone concerned with the economy is anxious. The question being asked is whether the Indian economy can be put back on the 7-8 per cent Growth trajectory and can...

-The Indian Express The Centre is set to cut annual budgetary expenditure for current fiscal by nearly Rs.2.2 lakh crore or 8 per cent from the Budget Estimate. With tax revenue Growth lagging the required rate by a wide margin, the Centre is all set to cut the annual budgetary expenditure for the current financial year by nearly Rs 2.2 lakh crore or 8 per cent from the Budget Estimate (BE). The...

-Livemint.com * An open economy spurred Growth and created a generation of aspirational millennials, but provided few avenues to follow these dreams * The cruelty of their situation is exacerbated by the fact that as a whole, millennials are better educated than previous generations Whenever I discuss my research on Indian millennials, most people assume that I’m talking about the social-media addicted youth they see in Delhi or Mumbai, glued to their smartphones...

-TheWire.in The Narendra Modi government's push to have research institutions depend less on public funds has been turned into a bad idea by the government's own priorities. “Innovate, patent, produce, prosper.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered these words in his inaugural address at the 107th Indian Science Congress, now underway in Bengaluru. Modi’s prescription (first advanced in early 2018) describes a straightforward path to success but it also quietly assumes an environment and...

-Livemint.com News of India recording the world’s most New Year’s Day births seems to have revived talk of a strict population control policy. But there is no need for panic. Nor state intervention. For decades, doomsday theories of our population boom have been used to explainrising poverty and unemployment, food shortages and health crises, environmental degradation and climate change. This New Year’s Day, Unicef, the United Nations’ children’s agency, estimated that nearly...