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April 28, 2025

Digital Personal Data Protection Act – Step To Secure The Personal Data

By Sanjay Kumar Satpathy, AGM(Law) & Zonal Legal Head, Union Bank of India, ZO, Delhi...

February 14, 2023

MODI YEARS OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH
NO STATE LEFT BEHIND (2014-2023)

In the run-up to the elections, the most strident debate is about economic outcomes. At...

May 6, 2022

Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring

Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring- A Discussion It is felt that the IBC or the Insolvency...

Inclusion

May 10, 2021

Aadhaar: How Did We Throw The Baby Out With The Bath Water?

The biggest regret expressed by Ram Sewak Sharma in the book ‘The Making of Aadhaar’...

Sameer Kochhar

March 28, 2020

Five policy actions needed to help MSME fight Corona battle

  The central bank, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a recent announcement of three-month...

Gursharan Dhanjal

December 16, 2019

Time to Save the Economy

The Prime Minister’s vision of India becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2024 has inspired...

Sameer Kochhar

December 16, 2019

Practical Ideas for Growing the Economy to $10 Trillion

The GDP growth rate is determined by two factors: the investment rate and the efficiency...

Rohan Kochhar

December 16, 2019

Revive and strengthen the role of centre-state engagement mechanism

The history of fiscal federalism in the past has demonstrated that three lists—Union List, State...

N K Singh

December 16, 2019

India Makes Huge Leap Towards Universal Health Coverage

India has made a huge leap towards the universal health coverage with introduction of Ayushman...

Vinod K Paul

December 16, 2019

Value Capture is Critical to Transform Indian Economy

Big technology companies are extracting huge profits from the Indian market but are paying hardly...

Sharad Sharma

December 16, 2019

Government must clear all payments and dues to revive investments

Different departments and institutions of the government owe huge amounts of money to companies, vendors...

Arvind Virmani

May 9, 2019

Spearheading Energy Inclusion and Front-End: Digi-tisation

  Two sterling developments standout from the myriad of initiatives undertaken in oil and gas...

D C Patra

May 9, 2019

Corporates Need To Give Primacy To National Interest

  It’s important to transform patriotism to a mass movement and the role of corporate...

Inclusion

May 9, 2019

Making a case for ‘Stakeholder Democracy’

  Corporates in India and across the world have long subscribed to the view that...

M Damodaran

May 9, 2019

Nurture MSMEs for Economic Growth

  Most of the MSMEs in India are nurseries for innovation and entrepreneurship that supply...

Gursharan Dhanjal

May 9, 2019

Economic Manifesto Important for Policymakers, Public

This is a season of manifestos and economic manifesto becomes really important for both policymakers...

N K Singh

May 9, 2019

India hasn’t got where it should have been

  Every now and then we speculate about the future of India. We are always...

Lord Meghnad Desai

April 1, 2018

INCLUSION Means Taking Every Region Along Growth Path

  The three I’s of Inclusive Growth, Infrastructure and Innovation are important for India to...

K T Rama Rao

April 1, 2018

Insurance Bedrock of Public Welfare

  The socio-economic situation in the country has changed for the better ever since Prime...

VK Sharma

April 1, 2018

Economists of Leading Think-Tanks on State of Inclusion

  It’s not often that leading thinktanks that delve into the economic sphere in India...

Inclusion

October 1, 2017

We Should Mean Business

  There are several beacons of hope in this country, which are bringing about a...

K J Alphons

October 1, 2017

Paving Roads for Inclusive Development

  Private sector participation or Public Private Partnership (PPP), which was conceived more than a...

Hari Sankaran

October 1, 2017

LIC Influencing Lives

  Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is the largest financial institution in the country with over...

VK Sharma

October 1, 2017

Emerging trends in non-life Insurance Sector

  The insurance sector in India has seen landmark changes in the last two years...

G Srinivasan

January 1, 2017

ModiNomics @ Work

On 28 January 2014, P Chidambaram had said, Modi’s knowledge of economics can be put...

Inclusion

January 1, 2017

SKOCH: eMonetise to Defeat Poverty

  Although, there are varying estimates of India’s economic growth slowing down to as low...

Gursharan Dhanjal

January 1, 2017

Digital India Digital Economy

The younger generation will be growing up in a new digital culture, sans intermediaries. Technology...

Aruna Sundararajan

January 1, 2017

Digital India at a Tipping Point

We have recommended that since soon all the cable TV connections are going to be...

Ram Sewak Sharma

January 1, 2017

Insurance and Sustainability

It is time that insurance companies moved their focus from urban populace to educating and...

Nilesh Sathe

January 1, 2017

From Less-Cash to Cashless

The challenge essentially will be to enhance acceptance of the acceptance devices. For the first...

Porush Singh

January 1, 2017

Think as Indians: Share, Work with Government to Mitigate Cyber Risks

Capacity building and basic training of the staff handling ATM, including the security agency is...

Gulshan Rai

January 1, 2017

Products, Distribution and Technology

A prescriptive analytics will also reduce mis-selling, while it enhances the ability to understand the...

Vineet Patni

January 1, 2017

A Monumental Exercise called Demonetisation

Focus should be on opening new bank branches in districts and making CSCs, the Banking...

J K Dadoo

October 1, 2016

Why is India not Doing Well in Social Sector?

  It is a matter of concern that India’s pace of improving the social indicators...

N C Saxena

October 1, 2016

Preparing Our Cities for the Future

  The challenges, which our cities are facing today, are increasingly becoming more complex. Whether...

M Ramachandran

July 1, 2016

Steel and Mines: Unleashing Potential

The Steel Sector   The liberalisation of industrial policy and other initiatives taken by the...

Narendra Singh Tomar

July 1, 2016

Women & Child Development Getting Priority

The government’s focus on the welfare of women and children is reinforced with a significant...

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

July 1, 2016

Focus on Small Industries – Best Model for India

Nearly 80 per cent of the country’s capital is in big industries, while they provide...

Giriraj Singh

July 1, 2016

Picking up Pace

  Across sectors—from Agriculture to Manufacturing to Steel & Mining—a host of measures have been...

Shaktikanta Das

July 1, 2016

Federal Fiscal Architecture is Transformed Within Two Years

“I believe in co-operative federalism, Centre needs to work with states”, declared Prime Minister Narendra...

V N Alok

July 1, 2016

De-risking Agriculture: What do Farmers Need?

The Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in his Budget speech (2016-17) expressed a nation’s grateful thanks...

K G Karmakar

April 1, 2016

PMGSY vs MGNREGS

  Over the last twenty years Government of India has launched a series of Centrally...

N C Saxena

April 1, 2016

Reform, Perform & Transform

  Though we have passed the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments transferring 29 subjects to...

M Venkaiah Naidu

April 1, 2016

Hindu Rate of Growth? No more…

If we introspect the 25-years of economic reforms that started in 1991, I would say...

Arun Jaitley

April 1, 2016

Panchayati Raj should be Priority, not Nuisance

The progress of India was conceived as a chariot that would run on two wheels....

Mani Shankar Aiyar

April 1, 2016

Identifying Root Cause Key to Growth

What China did in 1978, we did in 1991 and both have travelled a long...

Suresh Prabhu

April 1, 2016

Sustainable Approach to Reforms

The Vajpayee government took the reform process forward in different directions, including trade, foreign investment,...

Rajiv Pratap Rudy

April 1, 2016

The Need to Empower Our Cities

It took over 45 years after the attainment of freedom to push the agenda of...

M Ramachandran

April 1, 2016

20-Year Financial Inclusion Plan

The Committee on Financial Inclusion (Government of India (GOI), 2008) defines financial inclusion as the...

Charan Singh

January 1, 2016

Smart Cities will Transform Governance

  Based on the learnings of implementation of urban development schemes in the country in...

M Venkaiah Naidu

January 1, 2016

Innovation and Governance

  Gurgaon will be a Smart City in addition to Karnal and Faridabad. May be,...

Manohar Lal Khattar

January 1, 2016

Renewable Energy: Where is the Complete Package?

  Sometime back Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ambitious target of 175 GW by...

B K Chaturvedi

January 1, 2016

Transformation through Technology

  Transformation is a long and arduous journey that will require participation of all the...

Karna Bajwa

January 1, 2016

Transformation through Social Security

  In most countries, the social security, as it is defined by most governments, is...

Hemant Contractor

January 1, 2016

Transformation through Innovation

  Initially when we started digital certificates online, it was transformative. The beginning was small,...

Ajay Kumar

January 1, 2016

Transformation through Collaboration

  The interface between the citizen and the government is improving. The social equalisation is...

Som Satsangi

July 1, 2015

Localism: The bridgehead to ‘less government, more governance’

  Since independence, all governments of India have been committed to gradual rather than revolutionary...

David Dror

July 1, 2015

Tipping ‘$20 trillion Economy’ Game-plan, with Rational Farm Credit Policies

  In 2015-16 Union Budget, the government enhanced credit target for farm sector by 50,000...

Atul K Thakur

July 1, 2015

Mainstreaming Organic Farming

  Anupam Verma, who works for a multi-national company in Mumbai, was deeply disturbed after...

Gyanendra Keshri

July 1, 2015

Socio-Economic Development and NGOs in India

  The British colonial administration brought in progressive developmental forces by bringing in education (Kindergarten...

K G Karmakar

April 1, 2015

Bridging the Digital Divide

Nearly 65 per cent of our population is below the age of 35 years. Just...

Inclusion

April 1, 2015

Making People walk the Digital Highways

  Digital India’s real test will be in bridging the digital divide in India. In...

Inclusion

April 1, 2015

Let Markets Determine Technology Choices

Karan Bajwa,Managing Director,Microsoft Corporation (India) The debate over technology choices is not new. We have...

Karna Bajwa

April 1, 2015

Policy For Adoption of OSS Industry & Academia, Wake Up

M Moni,Former Director General, NIC I appreciate that the Department of Electronics and Information Technology...

M Moni

April 1, 2015

Technology Policy Needs To Be Pro-Choice

In India, we are encountering a unique situation. We decide on what technologies to be...

Deepak B Phatak

April 1, 2015

No One Killed Agriculture: Revisited

  “No One Killed Agriculture” was the cover story of April-June 2012 edition of INCLUSION....

Sameer Kochhar

April 1, 2015

Barriers Impede Innovation in India’s Payments System

The Indian economy is predominantly cash-driven with only 5 per cent of the country’s Personal...

Ari Sarker

April 1, 2015

Poverty Can’t Be Defeated Through Charity

  The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines poverty as “the state of one who lacks a...

S S Mundra

April 1, 2015

Moving towards Sustainable Development Goals

  Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), India along with other developing countries, has committed...

Gyanendra Keshri

April 1, 2015

Finding Permanent Solution to Poverty

  I am in politics for over 35 years. Since early days we have been...

Najma Heptulla

April 1, 2015

Redefining Priority Sector Lending

  In December 1967, the then Finance Minister Morarji Desai introduced a new term for...

K G Karmakar

April 1, 2015

Initiative to Make-in-Madhya Pradesh

Anthony de SaChief Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh has taken Make-in-India initiative very...

Anthony de Sa

April 1, 2015

Lack of Opportunities : Main Reason for Poverty

  Poverty remains one of the most pressing challenges facing the country today. But why...

Bibek Debroy

April 1, 2015

India’s External Sector Issues and Challenges

As we embarked on a period of planning after independence, import substitution constituted a major...

C Rangarajan

January 1, 2015

Samavesh Making Jan Dhan Meaningful

  Thirty-five year old Gomati from Mangatpur in Pilibhit has opened a bank account under...

Gyanendra Keshri

January 1, 2015

Reforms Must Perform

  While six months is too short a period to judge the performance of a...

Raj Kumar Ray

January 1, 2015

Modinomics will Change the Face of India

  It’s really a pity and a challenge to the system particularly those who are...

M Venkaiah Naidu

January 1, 2015

Indian Cities On the Radar of Global Investors but Rules Must be Conducive

  In 1947, when we gained Independence, the biggest challenge in front of us was...

Shankar Aggarwal

January 1, 2015

Smart Cities aren’t Just About Concrete Jungle

  The Ministry of urban development (MoUD) has published a Concept Note on Smart Cities...

Kamalendu Bali

January 1, 2015

Dual Concerns On Efficiency and Equity Must Be Addressed To Sustain High Growth

After two years of sluggish growth, the Indian economy seems to be regaining its lost...

Ashok Chawla

January 1, 2015

Make in India can’t Succeed without Digital India, Skill India

  The true challenge for India is to really to grow at 9-10 per cent...

Amitabh Kant

January 1, 2015

India Needs a 5-Ponged Strategy for Inclusive Growth

To my mind, there cannot be any controversy or debate as to how to achieve...

N C Saxena

October 1, 2014

Banks Steal From The Poor To Loan The Rich

  When the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deregulated savings bank deposit interest rates in...

Sameer Kochhar

October 1, 2014

Make in India’ Promises for an Industrial Revolution

  At the height of recession following Lehman crisis, the developed countries embarked on protectionist...

Raj Kumar Ray

October 1, 2014

Reinventing Traditional Skills and Livelihoods

  The idea of encouraging and enabling separate ministries to open their minds and doors...

Jaya Jaitly

October 1, 2014

Urban Development as Engine of Growth

  Even though India’s urban population is at a level of 31 per cent, considered...

M Ramachandran

October 1, 2014

Land Acquisition for Infrastructure & Industry

  Fast economic growth in the last two decades has increased demand for land from...

N C Saxena

October 1, 2014

Textiles Sector Nurturing Social and Economic Inclusion

  The Prime Minister’s clarion call to make the Indian textiles the biggest employer in...

Zohra Chatterji

October 1, 2014

21st Century Digital Bank

  A recent survey1 shows a decline in banking customers reporting positive opinion of their...

Kevin Pool

July 1, 2014

India Votes Hope

  We had seen it coming for a long time. For three primary reasons –...

Sameer Kochhar

July 1, 2014

Pleading The Farmers’ Causes

  The Central Government and most States have let down the farmers and the farm...

K G Karmakar

July 1, 2014

Propelling Financial Deepening

When I look at aspiring India, two kinds of people come to my mind: first,...

U K Sinha

July 1, 2014

For Making Infrastructure Work

  Our goal is now to become a middle-income country by 2025 – moving up...

Rana Kapoor

July 1, 2014

Rejuvenating Rural Health Systems

Since the launch of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 India has significantly improved...

N C Saxena

July 1, 2014

Modi’s Middle and Aspiring India

While the middle class in India has been a topic of intense debate, it has...

Rajesh Shukla

July 1, 2014

Follow Gujarat Model of Agriculture for Food Security

  More than 54 per cent of Indian workforce as per 2011 census is engaged...

Ashok Gulati

July 1, 2014

Coalesce Financial Reforms into an Inclusive Society

There have been loud noises about a total overhaul of the financial system and eager...

S S Tarapore

July 1, 2014

Time to Make Growth Equitable

Under the leadership of Narendra Modi, we have shown as to how after a long...

Meenakshi Lekhi

July 1, 2014

Transforming India Through New Wave of Digital Reforms

There are many parameters of financial inclusion; most important among them is the access to...

Ram Sewak Sharma

July 1, 2014

Policy Paralysis is a Bogey Bureaucracy Must Perform

I remember meeting Narendra Modi first time when I was CAG in 2009. Normally CAG...

Vinod Rai

July 1, 2014

National Insurance Leading in Motor Insurance

  Maximising growth with profitability by focusing on Corporate Automobile Tie-ups, promoting sale of policies...

Inclusion

July 1, 2014

Access to Financial Services for the Differently Abled

Financial inclusion is integral to economic development and growth. With the advancement in technology and...

Inclusion

April 1, 2014

Effective Leadership is The Answer

Arun Jaitley A few days ago my friend, the hon’ble finance minister, in the course...

Arun Jaitley

April 1, 2014

High Savings and Investment Rates Key to Regenerate Growth

C Rangarajan, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council The Indian economy is currently passing through a phase...

C Rangarajan

April 1, 2014

It’s Time to Realise India’s Potential

“Only 45 per cent students passing out of the tier 2 and tier 3 engineering...

Deepak Parekh

April 1, 2014

Inclusion, Growth and Governance The Way Forward

“To my mind, a fair share of the collective failure of the stakeholders can be...

K C Chakrabarty

April 1, 2014

Microfinance Agenda for Tomorrow

Chandra Shekhar Ghosh CMD, Bandhan Financial Services The struggle for a dignified life and against...

Chandra Shekhar Ghosh

April 1, 2014

Towards Removal of Rural Poverty Context and Rural Landscape

  I personally believe that the living conditions of the rural poor receive very little...

L C Goyal

April 1, 2014

The Untold Saga of Aadhaar

“It is not merely a technology project. But it is about technology of giving a...

Nandan Nilekani

April 1, 2014

Education for Children with Disabilities

“Special school tends to segregate CwDs from others and level of education imparted could be...

Stuti Kacker

April 1, 2014

Priority Sector Lending by Banks: Myths and Realities

“Over the years, RBI has been tinkering and tampering with the priority sector norms and...

K G Karmakar

April 1, 2014

Include ‘Urban Management’ in Higher Education

“The planning for human resources development is non-existent. Mostly we have incapable staff, hardly able...

R Vikram Singh

April 1, 2014

Financial Problems of Small Scale Industry

“When small units take recourse to non-bank sources of financing, they end up facing a...

S S Tarapore

April 1, 2014

Creating Jobs Through Skill Development

“Skill development still has to establish deep roots in India. Indian universities and professional institutions...

N C Saxena

April 1, 2014

Corporate Citizenship for Inclusive Growth

  Financial inclusion presents a way of bringing economic well being to millions of people...

A V Girijakumar

January 1, 2014

Ideas for Growth

“We have to improve our governance structures. Unless we do that, we cannot sustain high...

P Chidambaram

January 1, 2014

Competitive and Fair Markets are Essential for Corporate Legitimacy

Economic reforms are aimed at giving freer play to the private sector to respond to...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

January 1, 2014

Restore Partnership Between Government and Private Sector

“India is a remarkable model of nation building. It got universal suffrage at a much...

Rajiv B Lall

January 1, 2014

We Must Follow Best Global Practices

“There was much debate amongst political parties, shareholders, investors, lawyers and auditors, and all their...

Inclusion

January 1, 2014

Role Of Private Sector In Urban Development

M RamachandranDistinguished Fellow,SKOCH Development Foundation If the JNNURM facilitated focus on the urban agenda in...

M Ramachandran

January 1, 2014

Cleaning the Banking System is the First Priority

K G KarmakarProfessor, SPJIMR and former MD, NABARD Central Banks are known for avoiding needless...

K G Karmakar

January 1, 2014

Need for Real Conscious Capitalism

Underpinning the idea of corporate role in nation building is to encourage corporates to become...

Pradeep S Mehta

January 1, 2014

Dip in Priority Sector Lending is the Development Banking Agenda Being Given the Go-By ?

The concept of the ‘priority sector’ emerged mainly to encourage banks to lend more to...

Rohan Kochhar

October 1, 2013

Why have Some Done Better than Others?

N C SaxenaDistinguished Fellow,SKOCH Development Foundation The yawning gap between India’s economic performance and its...

N C Saxena

October 1, 2013

Devolution of Powers and The Panchayats

“Should there be a panchayat list in the same manner as there are Central, State...

Sudha Pillai

October 1, 2013

Need for New Technology

  I was all set to write a routine article on agriculture and started collecting...

K G Karmakar

October 1, 2013

Have States and Cities Improved After Jnnurm

“Some States moved fast in getting the City Development Plans prepared and came forward to...

M Ramachandran

October 1, 2013

The Role of Corporate Governance

“Bringing about changes in rules is no guarantee of future good behaviour. Even boards that...

Prabhu Guptara

October 1, 2013

Urban Development Needs to be Bundled with Agenda of Growth

“In our single-minded quest to generate growth we tend to forget the other part of...

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

October 1, 2013

Policy Coherence will Make it Easy for MSMEs

“The time has come to confront this basic issue – if the unorganised segment is...

Madhav Lal

October 1, 2013

Replicate Good Governance Models

  E-governance is a pretty complex matter that is made all the more complex with...

J Satyanarayana

October 1, 2013

Its Time For Economic Statesmanship

“One basic principle that needs to be followed assiduously is the principle of competition and...

C Rangarajan

October 1, 2013

Process re-Engineering Must to Derive Benefits

“Smart governance is not about gimmicks; it is about looking at high level architecture, platform,...

Sam Pitroda

October 1, 2013

The Quality of Follow-Up is Important

“We must have a moratorium on new ideas. The need is to take the backlog...

Prajapati Trivedi

October 1, 2013

Time to Think Boldly

“It is time now to look at technology partnerships versus technology selection…the mindset has to...

Karna Bajwa

October 1, 2013

Balance is the Key to Better Delivery

“Coordination is another area we intend to work on. We should, maybe, set up round-tables...

Zohra Chatterji

July 1, 2013

The Tale of Two Reforms

“I hope to be able to satisfy the Parliamentary Standing Committee, and to keep the...

P Chidambaram

July 1, 2013

Equitable Growth As a Governance Challenge

“Has India the ability to grow in a sustained way at 8-9 per cent? The...

C Rangarajan

July 1, 2013

The Truth About Demographic Dividend

“We have put in place an entitlement system for food, for employment and for education....

Nitin Desai

July 1, 2013

The Making of The Bihar Growth Story

N K Singh Member, Rajya Sabha The Bihar growth story is now in public focus....

N K Singh

July 1, 2013

India Needs Deep, Liquid Markets

"The markets galvanise savings and risk allocation to growing and capital-intensive sectors. They also play...

Chitra Ramkrishna

July 1, 2013

Eight Per Cent Growth Still Within Reach

“If there is going to be policy logjam, the rate will end up with 5-5.5...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

July 1, 2013

Financial Inclusion: A Must for Equitable Growth

“For achieving financial inclusion and prosperity, a collective effort would be required. The support of...

K C Chakrabarty

July 1, 2013

Streamlining Subsidy Management

“ The time is for reckoning in policy circles as well as in the public...

M Govinda Rao

July 1, 2013

Oracle: Facilitating Technology-Driven Banking in India

“Sustainable growth is not possible without having commitment for financial inclusion and ensuring that the...

Inclusion

July 1, 2013

Making Non-Life Insurance Inclusive

  Question: What is the size of National Insurance Company’s operations? Answer: The company has...

Gursharan Dhanjal

July 1, 2013

New Banking Licences: Is Financial Inclusion At Hand?

  When Pranab Mukherjee, the then Union Minister of Finance, announced in the 2011-12 Budget...

Inclusion

July 1, 2013

Banking on Bandhan

According to the guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), companies getting banking...

Inclusion

July 1, 2013

United Bank of India’s Tryst with Financial Inclusion in North-East

"UBI, through its long-standing presence in the North-East, has been spearheading banking for masses. As...

Inclusion

July 1, 2013

Need for Caution in Financial Legislative Reforms

  Processing of the sweeping legislative changes proposed by the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission...

S S Tarapore

July 1, 2013

What Needs to Be Done for Marginalised and Disadvantaged People?

  It is now well-established that economic growth and prosperity in India has generally bypassed...

N C Saxena

April 1, 2013

The Brave New World of Direct Benefit Transfers

Montek Singh Ahluwalia Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission The Unique Identitfication Authority of India (UIDAI) and...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

April 1, 2013

Aadhaar is a Win-Win For All

Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India The government is implementing the direct benefit...

Nandan Nilekani

April 1, 2013

The Challenge is at the Grassroots

  At the start of the period of the economic reforms, the total central budgetary...

Mani Shankar Aiyar

April 1, 2013

Governance Reforms Must Aim Big

  Reforms have to start grassroots level upwards. Sometimes, I feel that I am not...

Yashwant Sinha

April 1, 2013

A Revolution in Healthcare is Waiting to Happen

Devi Shetty Founder & Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya How can we do it when other emerging...

Devi Shetty

April 1, 2013

A Governance Framework for Gender Equality

Kirti Singhsenior counsel, Supreme Court of India The Sub- Group on the ‘Legal Framework for...

Kirti Singh

April 1, 2013

Re-Thinking Governance: The Gandhian Way

Wajahat HabibullahChairman, National Commission for Minorities After independence, India’s governance system ought to have imbibed...

Wajahat Habibullah

April 1, 2013

Governance: Time for A Radical Shift

Sitaram Yechurysenior member of Polit Bureau of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist) It is not...

Sitaram Yechury

April 1, 2013

Emerging Governance Imperatives for the Textile Sector

  The textile and clothing industry with a total market size of $94 billion today...

Zohra Chatterji

April 1, 2013

Rethinking Urban Governance

M RamachandranDistinguished Fellow, Skoch Development Foundation Though constitutional recognition came to local governments as a...

M Ramachandran

April 1, 2013

Governance in Agriculture

  M S Swaminathan, recalling the struggle with the Bengal famine rightly observed, ‘If agriculture...

B Yerram Raju

April 1, 2013

Evolving Structure of Commercial Banking in the Next Decade

  As of March 2012, the aggregate deposits of all commercial banks amounted to Rs...

S S Tarapore

April 1, 2013

Union Budget 2013-14: What does it Mean for the Social Sector?

The total combined expenditure of the states and the Centre on the social sector has...

N C Saxena

April 1, 2013

Pricing Natural Resources: Competition a Must for Success

R ChandrashekharSecretary, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT Pricing of natural resources has...

R Chandrashekhar

April 1, 2013

PPP is Essential for Urban Development

Sudhir KrishnaSecretary, Ministry of Urban Development India’s growth is dependent on the urban sprawl and...

Sudhir Krishna

April 1, 2013

Creating Competitive Markets Across Sectors – Making Liberalisation Work

Joseph MasseyMD & CEO, MCX-SX Liberalisation saw entry of foreign players into many of the...

Joseph Massey

April 1, 2013

Revolutionising the Trade Process Reforms

Arun SahuDirector General, Systems and Data Management, Central Board of Excise and Customs Information technology...

Arun Sahu

April 1, 2013

Bridging Gender Gaps: Linking Gender Budgeting with the Results Framework Document

Aasha Kapur Mehta The 12th Plan aims to end “gender based inequities, discrimination and violence”...

Inclusion

April 1, 2013

Interest of States Should be Factored In

  When we think of rethinking governance, the two topics that are predominant in my...

Rakesh Singh

April 1, 2013

Aligning PDS with Aadhaar – Challenges Ahead

Y S MalikPrincipal Secretary-Electronics & IT, Governmnt of Haryana In the context of Centre’s direct...

Y S Malik

April 1, 2013

Smart Governance is Key to Vibrant Gujarat

Ravi S SaxenaAdditional Chief Secretary, Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat Gujarat is at the...

Ravi S Saxena

April 1, 2013

Andhra’s Tryst with Smart Governance

Andhra Pradesh tryst with e-governance goes back to early 1990s, when it started with the...

Sanjay Jaju

April 1, 2013

E-Governance and the Art of Transforming Service Delivery Landscape

Hari Ranjan RaoSecretary-IT, Government of Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh is in the cusp of major...

Hari Ranjan Rao

April 1, 2013

Scripting an E-governance Success

  West Bengal began its e-governance initiatives in 2001-02. It started with digitisation of the...

Susanta Majumdar

April 1, 2013

Embracing Smart Governance: Karnataka Leads the Way

  Karnataka is one of early starters on delivery of citizen services via e-mode. Bhoomi...

M N Vidyashankar

April 1, 2013

Mission Aadhaar, a Precondition to Smart Governance

  E-governance might be a decade old concept in India, but its implementation remains slow...

Rajesh Aggarwal

April 1, 2013

Challenge is to Break the E -Governance Silos

  The e-governance landscape in Odisha is changing. The state, which was perceived to be...

Madhusudan Padhi

April 1, 2013

A New Milestone in Corporate Governance

Bhaskar ChatterjeeDirector-General & CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs Corporate governance was initially aimed at...

Bhaskar Chatterjee

April 1, 2013

PSUs Thumbs Up on New Corporate Governance Norms

  My department recently reviewed the corporate governance norms for public sector undertakings (PSUs) and...

O P Rawat

April 1, 2013

“Business Ethics Concerns us Like Never Before”

  Question: What is your view on corporate governance? Why is it important? Answer: Good...

Inclusion

April 1, 2013

IT Governance: Adding Value to Business

“A good IT governance structure contributes immensely to the bottomline. Even though India has made...

Inclusion

January 1, 2013

E-Governance: Need for a Bottom-Up Approach

On its journey to improve services for citizens, the government has undertaken several successful e-governance...

Sameer Kochhar

January 1, 2013

Higher Growth is Integral to Financial Inclusion

“What is not being recognised or realised is that there is a cost attached to...

C Rangarajan

January 1, 2013

Let’s Get the Demand Side Right

There are four elements to the debate about financial inclusion and growth from a capital...

Joseph Massey

January 1, 2013

Credit Culture Needs a New Direction

“We need smaller banks that can serve local populations. They will help the cause of...

Raghuram Rajan

January 1, 2013

Financial Inclusion for Micro- Entrepreneurs

“We have to worry about what we need to do in order to get the...

Nitin Desai

January 1, 2013

Growth: Bridging Intent and Action

“The Planning Commission says that it wants 8 per cent growth during the 12th Plan...

M Govinda Rao

January 1, 2013

Financial Inclusion Transcends Finance

“It is possible to design sound regulatory mechanisms while allowing the technological capabilities of modern...

T K Arun

January 1, 2013

Financial Innovations That Never Were

  The Report of the Committee on Financial Sector Assessment, headed by Rakesh Mohan, noted...

V K Sharma

January 1, 2013

Creating Markets Where None Existed!

“The essence of competition is about how you bring value to the business that benefits...

Jignesh Shah

January 1, 2013

Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Management

Frequent outages and cyber attacks are the fastest growing risks that businesses will have to...

Chandra Sekhar Pulamarasetti

January 1, 2013

Financial Legislative Reforms: Which Way Forward?

  The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) was set up in March 2011 with...

S S Tarapore

January 1, 2013

Commodity Markets and Inclusive Growth

B Yerram Raju Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation Markets are like the fleas in Jonathan Swift’s...

B Yerram Raju

October 1, 2012

India’s Economy: Today & Tomorrow

Montek Singh ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission The 1991 reforms took place only because there...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

October 1, 2012

Time to Act is Now!

Salman Khurshid, Minister for Law and Justice Only a few weeks ago a lot of...

Salman Khurshid

October 1, 2012

Growth Stimulus in Enhanced Production and Capacity Creation

We need to retrospect factors that have led to the slowdown - one is slowing...

C Rangarajan

October 1, 2012

People’s Participation in Reforms is Key

When, on 14 September 2012, the government announced new permissible foreign direct investment levels in...

Sandipan Deb

October 1, 2012

Agriculture in India: Are Women Benefiting?

  Despite India’s remarkable economic growth over the past two decades, the progress in achieving...

N C Saxena

October 1, 2012

Some Issues in Financial Sector Legislative Reforms

S S Tarapore , Distinguished Fellow, Skoch Development Foundation The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission...

S S Tarapore