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Building the data economy in India -Tarun Ramadorai

-Livemint.com An information economy requires an attitudinal shift in society about the critical role of quality Public Data In God we trust; all others must bring data." This quote is widely attributed to the American statistician W. Edwards Deming, who helped to develop sampling techniques in the 1940s that are still used by the US department of the census. Since Deming's time, the use of data for decision support for business and...

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In a hall of mirrors -Mrinal Pande

-The Indian Express It was an interesting discussion. The subject was the recent ordinance promulgated by the government of Rajasthan banning men and women without a Class X certificate from contesting zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections. To contest at the sarpanch level, a candidate will need to have passed Class VIII (Class V in tribal areas). In this state, with a particularly poor record of literacy among women, tribals and...

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‘Rising PDS theft reached Rs 48,000 cr in FY12’ -Sunil Jain

-The Indian Express Thefts from the public distribution system (PDS) are consistently rising and, according to the latest data for FY12, were a little over Rs 48,000 crore - or roughly the same as the median loss estimated by the CAG for the telecom scam of 2008. Just that unlike the 2G scam, the PDS theft happens every year. And its value rises as the costs of wheat and rice go up...

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India has enough land for farming but there are other bigger issues to worry about -Vivek Kaul

-FirstPost.com One of the fears that has been raised in the aftermath of the government promulgating an ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act is that land will be taken away for other purposes and given that, the amount of land used for farming will come down dramatically. This is a very specious argument that is being made. Data from World Bank shows that around 60.3 percent of India's land area is...

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Organic Farming in India Points the Way to Sustainable Agriculture -Jency Samuel

-IPS News NAGAPATNAM, India - Standing amidst his lush green paddy fields in Nagapatnam, a coastal district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a farmer named Ramajayam remembers how a single wave changed his entire life. The simple farmer was one of thousands whose agricultural lands were destroyed by the 2004 Asian tsunami, as massive volumes of saltwater and metre-high piles of sea slush inundated these fertile fields in the...

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