Specific disadvantaged sectors must be catered to! Many insurance products,from halth to life insurance policies can be promoted. What about the priority sector lending? Let us reward the bank innovators by Padmasris and Padma Bhushans! New challenges,new opportunities and new risks! The Indian banking system is a vast one. Ever since Inira Gandhi nationalised the…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
India on the world stage!
Where are the argumentative Indians? Fighting for our freedoms and democratic safeguards! Recent events on the international scene, military coup in Egypt, before that the Snowden affair that roused world public opinion in favour of giving asylum to him and India’s cowardly response and many other events including inside India, the Narendra Modi vs. Rahul…
Agriculture and economic growth
Only economic experts can’t do it either! Political leadership is required to inspire and promote agriculture, equity that is justice and all round economic development and thereby economic growth. A bit long-winded? Yes, it is! But then in India there are now many contradictions in our serious governance mechanism. Why? And how? Here are some…
Create a separate Ministry for Uttarkhand
Rehabilitation and Development Create a new post of Cabinet Minister! Station him or her in Dehradun! This is a national disaster! The Uttarkhand Speaker, Govind Singh Kunjwal, had put the loss of lives at 10,000 while the Union home minister puts it at 900. Whose figures the public would believe? Surely, the local man would…
The emerging political scenario in India
Is there a case for a federal or third front? 2014 elections seem to be the only talking point among the politicians and the political parties these days, it seems. Politics in India is a hot topic as the country is changing fast in socioeconomic terms. The economic growth is a hot topic too. In…
Natural gas price doubled!
We welcome it? More than the pure economics, the economics costs involved, such high-stake sectors like natural gas, coal and even the benefitting sectors like power generation and fertiliser industries that would be the biggest users of natural gas, it is the worry about the transparent governance, transparency behaviour of the political class, the bureaucracy…
India, the world’s number one rice exporter!
How do paddy farmers gain? How they are losers? Serious issues! From agricultural production to agri trade! India emerges as a serious player in the international market. For the first time, after a very long period we hear of international trade in Indian rice! This is reflected in the recent price hike for paddy cultivation….
Why agriculture matters as a top economic policy?
Why this aspect is not talked about in India? India’s economic strength is derived from the people! Why agriculture and rural India neglected? Why they are a low priority? Simple! We in India, are a very British-style influenced bureaucrats-filled Indian steel-frame mentality nation! Thomas Metcalfe, the famous British civil servant has called the Indian villages”…