-Economic and Political Weekly The High-Level Committee set up by the Narendra Modi government to review the major laws relating to environment protection has, in its recommendations, worked towards two sets of objectives: one, to separate business from the messiness of governance, and, two, to redraw the line of demarcation between the judiciary and the executive. Manju Menon (manjumenon@namati.org) and Kanchi Kohli (kanchikohli@namati.org) are with the Centre for Policy Research - Namati...
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Being middle class in India -Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav
-The Hindu Are differences within the middle class, in income, education, and cultural and social capital, so wide as to render moot any ideological or behavioural coherence to this group? The rapid growth of the Indian economy over the past three decades has led to a substantial expansion of India's "middle class". This has triggered a robust debate over who in India actually belongs to the "middle class," its size, composition, and...
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-The Hindu Chennai: Tamil Nadu has sought increased role and greater fiscal autonomy for States in the new institution that will replace the Planning Commission. "It is our belief that a Strong Union can emerge only out of strong states and India's governance structure has to incorporate more federal features," Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam said at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chief Ministers to discuss the...
More »India's ranking on global corruption index improves
-PTI NEW DELHI: India has showed some improvement in addressing corruption this year, ranking 85th among 175 countries as against 94th last year, graft watchdog Transparency International India (TII) said on Wednesday. Denmark retained its position as the least corrupt country in 2014 with a score of 92 while North Korea and Somalia shared the last place, scoring just 8, it said. In India's neighbourhood, China moved to 100th place, down from 80th...
More »Budgetary cuts: MGNREGA may be the worst hit
-FirstPost.com The MGNREGA rural job programme and other social welfare schemess will take a significant hit due to the 15 percent budget cut that the ministry of finance is believed to have proposed recently, social activists said Saturday. "You (the government) cut fund allocations from social and development programmes and then talk of development. That is so wrong. Such notion is misplaced and insulting," said Jayati Ghosh, a professor of economics at...
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