-The Financial Express Controlling food inflation seems to have pre-occupied the attention of the Modi government, at least for now, and it has succeeded in minimising the damage despite a poor monsoon. The Modi government had to hit the ground runNINg as far as food and agriculture is concerned. With delayed and deficient rains in June and the spectre of El NINo, drought was looming large. Food inflation was stubbornly stuck at...
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National food security gets lukewarm response from states -Sanjeeb Mukherjee & Vrishti Beniwal
-The Business Standard States drag feet on even extended deadline for implementation; with Centre also worried on fiscal deficit, extension likely The National Food Security Act (NFSA) is still getting a lukewarm response from a majority of states. An extended deadline for implementing the law will expire in about a month and the Centre would have to give more time. Barring the NINe states and two Union Territories (UTs) which introduced a food...
More »Replacing the PlanNINg Commission -Indira Rajaraman
-The Business Standard The PlanNINg Commission needs to be replaced by institutions prescribed under the Constitution for the functions it usurped The PlanNINg Commission was a powerful centre of extra-constitutional authority, but not because the Constitution overlooked the need for the roles that it played. The prescription of fiscal flows from Centre to states was assigned under Article 280 to Finance Commissions, set up every five years with what by convention...
More »How Crime Data Contradicts Communal Spin to UP Rape Cases -Niha Masih and Sreenivasan Jain
-NDTV Meerut (Uttar Pradesh): The BJP's new rhetoric focusing on a communal twist to crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh is not borne out by cold facts. Data accessed by NDTV shows that in western Uttar Pradesh, where vociferous campaigns have highlighted the alleged abuse of Hindu women by Muslim men, women have been assaulted by men from their own community in most rape cases this year. On Sunday, we had reported...
More »PlanNINg Commission replacement shouldn't allocate funds, say experts -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-The Business Standard The new institution could play the role of a 'think tank' A high-level meeting to frame a new body to replace the PlanNINg Commission is learnt to have arrived at a broad consensus that allocation of Plan funds should not be the domain of the new entity but of the finance ministry. The new institution, it was agreed, could play the role of a "think tank". Officials in the...
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