-Hindustan Times Jaipur: The village is called Piplantri. It could very well be re-named ‘pi-plant-tree'. For, this village in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district celebrates the birth of a girl by planting 111 trees, a unique achievement in a state where female foeticide is rampant and the sex ratio is one of the most skewed in the country. For Piplantri, the international Women's Day on March 8 may not mean anything but for...
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Nehruvian budget in the corporate age -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu The Budget overlooks the fact that human capabilities are as important as physical capital for economic growth and the quality of life. It goes back to the days when growth and development sounded synonymous, physical capital was thought to be the key, and human capital took a back seat Once upon a time, around the end of the Second World War, there was a naive view in development economics that...
More »Rainfed authority again an arm of farm ministry; UIDAI gets boost -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Budget of NITI Aayog may go up by 18.20% in 2015-16 In a classic case of back to basics, the National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA), which since 2010 has been part of the erstwhile Planning Commission, will henceforth be an arm of the department of agriculture, as NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog is up for a rejig. NRAA's budget in 2014-15 was about Rs 31.50 crore, while...
More »Plan to make colonies legal to start all over again -Pragya Kaushika
-The Indian Express New Delhi: After many years of political bickering, distribution of provisional certificates and promises by parties to regularise them, 895 unauthorised colonies face another uncertain wait. A legal status for these colonies may be many more years away as the AAP government has decided to redo the whole process from the beginning. The Urban Development department has mooted a proposal to allow three agencies to redo the boundaries of...
More »Silence on the farm -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express The Union budget is largely about the intentions and policies of the government of the day, as well as the arithmetic of resource mobilisation and allocation to achieve certain ends in the economy. The diagnostics of various economic problems and their probable solutions are generally found in the Economic Survey. The Economic Survey clearly indicates that growth in agri-GDP in FY15 has collapsed to just 1.1 per cent, while...
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