-India Today Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh criticised Modi government's handling of the economy and demanded stimulus package towards employment generating activities in labour intensive sectors. On a day when senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha trained his guns against the government's economic policies, a Sangh-affiliate Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) also hit out at the Modi government. The RSS affiliate criticised the Modi government's handling of the economy, called...
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Herd Mentality -Himanshu Upadhyaya
-CaravanMagazine.in How political rhetoric has drowned out the economic realities of cattle-slaughter bans In mid August, news broke that more than 200 cows had starved to death in a shelter in Chhattisgarh owned by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader named Harish Verma. After the reports appeared, Verma protested that he had not received funds that the government had promised him for the shelter. But the irony could not have been starker. The BJP...
More »Farm loan waiver: Maharashtra detects 1.5 million suspicious bank accounts -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil
-Livemint.com According to a senior BJP minister, a preliminary probe by the Maharashtra government identified these ‘bank accounts without a credible credit history’ Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has spotted nearly 1.5 million suspicious bank accounts it suspects were created merely to grab the benefits of its Rs34,022 crore farm loan waiver. According to a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister who is also a member of the ministerial group on farm loan waiver,...
More »Narmada dam: Public finance, public play -Sudeep Chakravarti
-Livemint.com For the people of India and their “faith” in the Sardar Sarovar dam, it’s really a matter of public finance Optics is as air for politicians. It is no different for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and what is commonly known as the Narmada Dam. But even air can sometimes get dense with rhetoric. On 17 September, Modi inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam, the largest project of the Narmada, or Sardar Sarovar Project,...
More »SBI Research says economic slowdown is real not just 'technical'
-PTI SBI Research said the slowdown is real and not technical and called for more public spending to arrest the slide Mumbai: Noting that the economy has been on a downslide since September 2016, SBI Research on Tuesday said the slowdown is real and not technical and called for more public spending to arrest the slide. “We certainly believe that we are in a slowdown mode since September 2016 and a slowdown that...
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