-Hindustan Times Haryana currently has 10 power projects that use paddy straw to generate around 84MW electricity. Besides, there are two paddy straw-based biomass power projects in Kurukshetra and Kaithal, owned by Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA), that consume 3.5 lakh MT of crop waste and generate 15 MW electricity each. Karnal: With around 35 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of paddy crop residue generated every year, Haryana faces a mammoth task...
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Realistic analysis shows that the Indian economy has simply taken little steps in Q1 instead of a quantum leap
There is euphoria abound about India's growth performance during the first quarter of the current fiscal. As compared to the corresponding period last year, the year-on-year (y-o-y) GDP growth in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022-23 is down. However, one should take into account the fact that the high growth performance of the real GDP in Q1 of 2021-22 was due to the low base in the corresponding period of...
More »Why don’t Indian fruit sellers make it big despite good Profits? Imperfect competition, says study -Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in Study by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee & other scholars from US, UK and Canada found that fresh produce vendors charge high mark-ups but fail to adopt competitive market practices. New Delhi: Anyone who has haggled with a thelewala or streetside vendor in India knows that they often apply big mark-ups on prices and make good margins. Yet, selling fruits and vegetables in India is generally associated with “peanuts” when it comes...
More »Organic takeover: How 10,000 farmers of Telangana, Andhra are steering a silent movement -Abhay Kumar Singh
-Down to Earth A federation of farmer-producer organisations has tapped into the growing organic market to help members raise incomes Catering directly to the consumers’ needs assures better marketability and incomes. This is what nearly 10,000 farmers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have realised over the past decade and are now steering a silent organic movement. It all began in 2009, when a group of consumers in Hyderabad, then part of unified Andhra...
More »Public sector banks have ensured financial inclusion, finds a new empirical study
Are public sector banks (PSBs) important for the economy? Have the PSBs served the purpose for which they were created? Could the PSBs compete efficiently against the private sector banks (PVBs)? These are some of the questions, which have been answered by a chapter in the RBI Bulletin's August edition. Efficiency of PSBs Co-authored by Snehal S Herwadkar, Sonali Goel, and Rishuka Bansal (2022) of the Banking Research Division, Reserve Bank of...
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