-The Times of India NEW DELHI: As the Centre stitches together its plan to roll out the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme, BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh seems all set to achieve full coverage of some benefits through the scheme. The DBT scheme has been touted as a game-changer for the ruling Congress party in the lead-up to the general elections in 2014. Ironically, a BJP-ruled state seems to have taken the lead to...
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Sen vs Bhagwati: Parallels from an earlier titanic clash-Rupa Subramanya
-The Business Standard Can Bhagwati-Sen debate bring the same change as Hayek-Keynes duel in the US in 1932 At a time of economic crisis, a distinguished group of economists wrote a letter to a major newspaper, making a case for increased government involvement in the economy. A few days later, an equally distinguished group of economists wrote a letter to the same newspaper, arguing against the first lot. No, this...
More »A rejection of the ‘maximum-force’ approach-Prashant Jha
-The Hindu A large section of Indian voters appear distinctly uncomfortable with the way the Indian state deals with issues of internal security, particularly the issue of the Maoist insurgency. While they recognise it as the ‘greatest threat', there is a clear disapproval for an approach based on deploying only security forces in large numbers. The CNN IBN-The Hindu Election Tracker survey, conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies...
More »Nitish Kumar writes to Prime Minister seeking higher wages under NREGA -Urmi A Goswami
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is leveraging his politically 'unattached' status to seek higher wages for his people under the Centre's rural employment guarantee scheme. Kumar, being wooed by the Congress after he parted ways with the BJP, has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that the state plans to raise NREGA payments to align them with the statutory minimum wage. "Notification of lower wage rates...
More »DBT rollout: Key dept shifted from Planning Commission to Finance Ministry
-PTI NEW DELHI: Keen to hasten the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today shifted a key department overseeing its implementation from the Planning Commission to the Finance Ministry for "better coordination" and "resolution of inter-ministerial issues". The DBT programme has covered over 2.8 million LPG transactions valued at Rs 116 crore in the seven weeks since it was launched, the Prime Minister's Office said here today. "In order to...
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