-Outlook Gadchiroli: A poor tribal woman has been running from pillar to post for the last 15 days to open a bank account. In absence of a bank account, Sarika Sanjay Madavi, who has a two-month-old child, is unable to avail benefit of a financial assistance scheme of the Maharashtra Government. The 25-year-old resides with her husband and mother- in-law in village Chatgaon under Dhanora taluka of this Eastern Maharashtra district, which is...
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UPA’s showpiece cash plan flops in Congress bastion -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times The UPA's showpiece direct benefits transfer (DBT) plan is struggling. Poor Aadhaar enrolment clubbed with lack of banking facilities is coming in the way of the anti-poverty programme. Numbers are telling. Two months after the roll out in Rae Bareli, the constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, only Rs. 1,400 has been transferred in Rae Bareli. The district has 6,000 people enlisted for the National Social Security Programme....
More »Ready for peak oil?-Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu As cities expand and markets keep fuel prices high, Indians are demanding better public transport. The States must deliver, but they are only inching ahead. In the chorus of angry voices against the horrific gang rape of a paramedic student on a moving bus in the national capital on December 16 last, one issue that quickly became apparent was the state of public transport in urban areas. The shocking incident...
More »LS passes bill for street vendors
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The goons and police can hang their heads in shame. Together, for once. The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha today with overwhelming support, with almost every speaker narrating how the police and criminals harass hawkers. The debate wove a tragic tale of exploitation and neglect of the poorest "entrepreneurs" of society while powerful support systems were available...
More »What Amartya Sen doesn't see -Arvind Panagariya
-The Times of India The ongoing 'Bhagwati versus Sen' debate has generated more heat than light, necessitating correction. As an equal co-author of India's Tryst with Destiny, which defines the Bhagwati position, my stake in the debate is second to none. Two extreme characterisations of the positions of the two sides have emerged. The first has it that the differences between them are minimal with each side expressing the same ideas in...
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