From villagers to experts: what they say? There is popular fear after the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster! But experts surveyed here say, almost uniformly, nuclear power is a superior solution to the all other alternatives. Coal has ruined the environment, in USA and China, notably. Oil and natural gas in short supply and prices fluctuate…
Category: Rural India
Bankers let down our farmers?
Why Microfinance is now a bad word? Finance ministry must introduce a regulator for the agricredit monitoring Yes, microfinance companies have now come under a cloud. Andhra Pradesh government brought out an ordinance in 2010 end and asked the RBI to probe the scandals that have come out now in the open. There have been…
Rural-Urban India churning!
Bangalore, India’s future face! The best and brightest Indian youth throng to Bangalore! High-tech India arrives on a bullock cart! 2,30,000 engineers, most of them young, are working in Bangalore IT firms and outsourcing companies. China has a tech work force of 1,80,000 engineers. China is one year behind India. While other countries, even in…
From rural poverty to urban poverty
It is reported the Prime Minister has given the housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Kumari Selja two books by the visiting Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto. The books by the economist are called the poor man’s capitalist, the books by the economist who seems to have created urban housing the in the slums there…
Farming is a losing battle?
Yes, for most farmers! Most things have to remain unsaid in our democracy! So, even criticism has to remain subdued! Climate change summit outcome and the future of agriculture One good thing is that the PM and Sonia Gandhi don’t speak on food prices! Their pet hobbies are the aam aadmi and the NREGA, both…
Congress patent Aam aadmi?
Aam aadmi then can steal your clothes, dont you see? Congress patented aam aadmi? See the bye-election results! Yeddyurappa for 36 point rural development! AP political reality point to ugly corporate-politicians nexus! Tamil Nadu exhibits coalition degenerating into family empire! Yes, even coalitions must have some baci principles, some basic truths and some basic ethics…
Critical infrastructure needs critical policy innovations!
Yes, this is the time of difficult governance and decision-making Considering the world recession, internal challenges, swine flu scare and widespread rought, there is an emerging crisis on a large-scale. There is no use and it doesn’t serve anyone’s purpose to ignore the ground level realities. Critical infrastructure, power, mining, steel, roads, civil aviation, to…
Empowering the people? Who cares? Who believes in?
None! None at all! You can’t have altruism unalloyed at the grass roots democracy, can you? Forget about it! For quite sometime! The hold of bureaucracy is total and unbreakable! Unfortunately, our current crop of leaders also doesn’t believe in empowerment, seriously! Yes, this election will be as like any other election. The other day…