-MoneyLife.in While lenders harass individual or small borrowers to the point of even releasing the borrowers’ photos to the press for publishing them, it appears that big corporate defaulters are bestowed with immunity from such humiliation. They are a protected species. In fact, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) even declined to reveal to the Lok Sabha the details of loans written off of major corporates. In a written reply, Dr Bhagwat Karad,...
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What will a legal guarantee of MSP involve? -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Why are farm unions seeking a minimum support price for all crops? What are the terms of the committee set up to look into their demands? The story so far: After a year-long agitation on the borders of Delhi, protesting farm unions under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha have achieved their headline demand, namely the repeal of three contentious laws seeking to reform the storage and marketing of...
More »Indian agriculture needs a Verghese Kurien -C Sarat Chandran
-The Hindu Amul’s success does not seem to have become a catalyst for similar movements across other agricultural commodities Many wish for legendary “Milk Man of India” Verghese Kurien’s presence in our midst today as the conflict between the Central government and the farming community on the issue of the farm laws appears to be still unresolved. November 26, 2021 was also Kurien’s 100th birth anniversary. Kurien’s deep understanding of Indian farming...
More »India’s Government Health Expenditure as the Ratio to GDP Is It a Fallacy? -TR Dilip, Pratheeba J, and Sunil Nandraj
-Economic and Political Weekly The appropriateness of the criterion that pegs the ratio of public health expenditure to the gross domestic product—which is volatile—needs a re-examination. The targets for allocation and expenditure of financial resources for health need to be based on indicators that can be monitored. Please click here to access the ARTicle. ...
More »A close reading of the NFHS-5, the health of India -Ashwini Deshpande
-The Hindu Given how little the country spends on health and education as a share of GDP, the improvements seem remarkable The national health and demographic report card is finally completely out. The results from the first phase (conducted between June 2019 and January 2020) of the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) were released in December 2020. We now have the key results from the second phase (conducted...
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