-Scroll.in India’s first chief statistician, Pronab Sen, is now country director of the International Growth Centre, which seeks to build effective growth facilities through engagement between policymakers and researchers. In this interview to Scroll.in, he speaks on the 50 days of demonetisation, its failings, its severe impact on the poor, the loss of credibility of the Reserve Bank of India, the push to make India a cashless or less-cash economy, and...

-Business Standard States sent initial queries for research to NIPFP in Feb-March; Work on research started around July New Delhi: Months before demonetisation, in February-March, the Madhya Pradesh and haryana state governments had approached the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) to evaluate Pune-based NGO ArthaKranti’s proposals, which include the withdrawal of high-denomination notes. The initial queries for conducting the research from the two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state governments went...

-PTI New Delhi: "We do not want politics to shift to the courts," the Supreme Court observed on Thursday while hearing arguments on whether a political party can file and pursue a public interest litigation (PIL). "The apprehension is that this will shift politics to the courts. We do not want this. We do not want politics to shift to the courts," a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and N V...

-The Hindu Cultivators in Punjab and haryana head for another period of distress, thanks to demonetisation Demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes has badly hit potato growers in Punjab and haryana where farmers are heading for yet another period of distress as they are finding it difficult to recover even the cost of produce, let alone make profits. In Jalandhar’s vegetable market, the fresh-crop potato fetched as low as Rs. 100...

-Hindustan Times Village Khokh (Patiala): Nek Singh Khokh fears he might wilt, just the way the saplings in his sprawling nursery might. Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled his demonetisation plan, scrapping big denomination currency to drain the economy of black money and counterfeits, Khokh has been struggling to pay labourers to tend to his saplings. The owner of a nursery, some 25 km west of the Punjab town of Sirhind, Khokh...