-The Business Standard Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely...
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IPR policy in the works
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The government plans to come out with a policy on intellectual property rights (IPR) within a few months, with developed nations such as the US and the EU raising concerns over the country's patent rules. "India does not have an IPR policy. This is the first time we are coming out with a policy. IPR policy issues have been hanging fire for quite a long time," commerce and...
More »Govt will not reduce food, fertiliser subsidy
-The Deccan Herald The government will not reduce subsidy on food items, fertilisers and development schemes in the current financial year starting April from what was paid in 2013-14, Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman said. "The government does not plan to cut subsidies given in schemes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and National Food Security Act," the minister said in reply to a question in the Rajya...
More »India Says Confident WTO Will Understand Its Food Security Concerns
-Thomson Reuters India is confident that it will be able to persuade members of the 160-strong World Trade Organisation to understand its concerns over food security which derailed a global trade deal last week, said Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in parliament today. The minister explained India's stand: that the Bali trade accord, an agreement reached on the Indonesian tourist island last year, should be concluded as a package, linking India's ratification of...
More »Independence from the government -Swagata Raha and Archana Mehendale
-The Hindu Although meant to function as watchdogs, human rights institutions in India are treated as subordinate departments with scant regard for their autonomy or statutory character A change in the occupancy of 7, Race Course Road, is spelling change in the composition of statutory bodies in India. With the Governors of various States, the office-bearers of the National Disaster Management Authority and the Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of...
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