-The Hindu The parliamentary committees on the howitzer scam and the stock market scandal protected the powerful and failed to fix accountability. The same is true in the spectrum case The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister then was under a cloud in the Bofors scam. Many of his close associates like Lalit Suri and Ajitabh Bachchan were accused of wrong-doing. Today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and...
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Growth falters as UPA completes 4-years in office -Surojit Gupta
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The second tenure of the UPA coalition has witnessed a sharp slowdown in growth, stubborn prices, high interest rates and faltering business confidence. While there are some tentative signs of a revival on the horizon, the Indian economy is still not out of the woods and experts say sustained policy and governance reforms are needed to lift Asia's third-largest economy back to its potential growth rate...
More »Panel tweaks plan for minority universities-Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph A panel of experts has watered down a proposal by the UPA Government to set up five minority universities, citing legal hurdles. The committee, headed by Indian Council of Social Science Research chairman Sukhadeo Thorat, has suggested that the institutions be set up as central universities with their focus on minorities, instead of minority institutions as proposed. The committee submitted its report to the minority affairs ministry last month, a senior...
More »Inflation spoils UPA’s report card -Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For a man who prides himself as being the "original reformer", PM Manmohan Singh did not mention the word "reforms" even once in his speech on the ninth anniversary of UPA. And, it was only once that he talked of inflation. It was hardly surprising given that reforms do not seem to be on his radar in view of the tough political environment and inflation is...
More »Ramesh cut to size on red action plan -Yatish Yadav
-The New Indian Express In a war of letters between Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth over ways to tackle the Naxalite menace, the minister has emerged the loser. In 2012, the minister had criticised the UPA's flagship programme-the Integrated Action Plan (IAP)-which has been designed to tackle Left Wing Extremism (LWE) through development projects. Last July, he had asked the Prime Minister to scrap the IAP-the brainchild...
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