-PTI New Delhi: Terming high onion prices as a “temporary phase”, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday asserted that they have enough supplies in buffer stock to check prices of the staple food that trade data showed is ruling in the range of Rs 50-60 per kg in some parts of the country. Among metros, onion was quoting at Rs 34 per kg in Chennai, Rs 43 per kg in Mumbai,...
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What the Centre really needs to do if it wants to tackle the economic slowdown -Amiya Kumar Bagchi
-TheWire.in Both the Modi government and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are ignoring one crucial aspect of reviving the Economy: raising effective demand. Only a few weeks ago, the central government was talking grandly about India reaching a $5-trillion Economy and refusing to recognise the severe slowdown India is going through. (This is not such a grand ambition when compared with China, which is often portrayed as India’s competitor, because by 2025,...
More »Spend to grow -C Rangarajan and DK Srivastava
-The Indian Express Government should explore all avenues to expand capital expenditures From a level of 8.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2017-18, quarterly GDP growth fell to 5 per cent in the first quarter of 2019-20, a fall of 3.1 percentage points. The slowdown of the Indian Economy is no longer in dispute. Thankfully, the government has come out of denial mode. The critical question is: What should...
More »The slow climb to the trillion Economy peak -Indira Hirway
-The Hindu There has to be a focus on human capital formation and in addressing the real reasons for the economic slowdown On Independence Day, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that India would be a $5-trillion Economy in 2024, a line that has been picked up by ruling party leaders, Ministers and also senior government officers. However, this is surprising as the impact of economic growth on major development goals — examples being...
More »Not a single Uttar Pradesh farmer has got PM-Kisan 3rd tranche, Finance Ministry concerned -P Vaidyanathan Iyer and Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Telangana are the top three states, having disbursed the third instalment to almost 16.35 lakh, 13.99 lakh and 11.03 lakh farmers, respectively. Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for one out of every four farmers in the country, has not yet paid the third instalment under PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) to a single farmer, according to the last update Monday night on the scheme’s...
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