As the nation debates the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and its implications on food security for the country, it is pertinent to pause for a moment and ponder some of the structural reasons for the Mismanagement of the food economy of the country. Forget the past or the future or even the present set of policies being pursued. The UPA-II is pushing the nation inexorably towards a regime of...
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India doesn't have a law to protect whistleblower
What is a whistleblower protection law? A whistleblower is defined as someone who exposes wrongdoing, fraud, corruption or Mismanagement. In many cases, this could be a person who works for the government who would report misconduct within the government or it could be an employee of a private company who reports corrupt practices within the company. The law that a government enacts to protect such persons who help expose corruption...
More »Sugar: Exports despite shortage leave Govt red-faced by Rahul Srivastava
Sugar prices have been rising, and the government has been offering sweet nothings. But on Tuesday the entire Opposition - even UPA's allies - will put the government in the dock over price rise. At this juncture, a notification by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) is certainly bad news for the beleaguered government. Though sugar exports are banned, the DGFT issued a notice on February 15 allocating 10,000 Metric tonnes...
More »Every Breath We Take by Madhu Purnima Kishwar
Why is the government aggressively attacking and destroying inexpensive eco-friendly technologies and promoting pollution-friendly ones? Are we obliged to repeat all the mistakes that the West committed in its pursuit of economic growth? While it makes sense to corner First World countries into investing in eco- friendly technologies to control carbon emissions, as was attempted at Copenhagen, the stand of the Indian government that India cannot afford to enforce better...
More »Ghost Lullabies by Chandrani Banerjee
* A Rs 350 crore scam has surfaced in the Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme * Three organisations are being investigated by the vigilance department of the women WCD ministry for Mismanagement and for running creches only on paper * The scheme was for children of women in the unorganised sector * The organisations maintained fake audits and balancesheets signed by CAs Nothing, it would seem, is sacred for scamsters....
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