manish sabharwal Columns, Leading Columnist

manish sabharwal The Indian Express Group

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column-reimagining-trade-unions
Friday 22 Feb '13Mindless strikes accelerate trade unions’ decline. They should focus on skills, formal employment, benefits & job creation.
column-jobs-economics-and-selfesteem
Saturday 08 Dec '12Many of the arguments against foreign investment in retail in Parliament were fuelled by fear, self-interest and economic illiteracy.
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Monday 29 Oct '12The 1971 surrender by General AA Niazi of Bangladesh with 93,000 soldiers to Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora has been a perennial source of national shame in Pakistan.
column-sebi-gets-it-right-on-consent-orders
Tuesday 29 May '12Proposes to link consent amounts with the nature and size of the violation; shows it has learnt from previous errors.
column-world-s-most-expensive-fund
Thursday 05 Apr '12At 446 bps, the EPFO charges 10-20 times what anyone else does, and for doing so little. Because it’s a monopoly.
column-poetry-versus-plumbing
Friday 30 Mar '12Akhilesh Yadav’s employment exchange revival plan costs R2,000cr/yr. There is a less leaky R200cr option.

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column-go-on-get-a-vocation-
Tuesday 14 Feb '12One of the biggest tragedies in Indian higher education is the partition in the cerebral cortex of Indian parents when they think of their kids’ educational activity; they send their kids to vocational institutes for jobs/skills and send them to colleges for the social signalling value of a degree.
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Friday 21 Oct '11Over the last few years, a few economists and policymakers have begun to say that labour laws don’t matter for job creation because entrepreneurs have figured out how to deal with them.
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Tuesday 01 Feb '11Delhi University meets only 4% of its revenue from student fees. The Right to Education Act needs an incremental Rs 40,000 crore commitment from state governments.
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Monday 03 Jan '11The only economic or social variable that has not moved since 1991 in India is our 93% informal employment in the informal sector.
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Wednesday 17 Nov '10Demands for the 100-day job under NREGS to pay minimum wages have revived with the National Advisory Council’s letter to the Prime Minister supporting earlier letters from the chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.
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Saturday 16 Oct '10The most important decision a child in India makes is to choose his/her parents wisely. Having parents who speak English, live in a city, work in the organised sector, went to college, and kept you healthy gives you an opening balance that pretty much ensures a good life.
column-betraying-trust
Thursday 23 Sep '10Despite his recent bail, Ramalinga Raju of Satyam has learnt the hard way that those who ride tigers end up inside them. But the hole he created—about Rs 10,000 crore—is small relative to the Rs 50,000 crore deficit in the Employee Pension Scheme created by the trustees of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation.
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Thursday 26 Aug '10I wish all government teachers came to school every day. I wish district collectors would stop requisitioning government teachers for other work. I wish we could create a fear of falling and hope of rising among government teachers. I wish state governments would release money to schools in tune with the academic calendar.
column-getting-state-intervention-wrong
Monday 12 Jul '10It is the season of rights in Indian public policy. The Right to Education—a piece of legislation that essentially nationalises 25% of private school capacity—will soon be joined by the Right to Food.
column-mci-scandal-education-reform
Tuesday 18 May '10The dissolution of the Medical Council of India by the government, after the arrest of its chief, sounds like an....
column-why-quantity-is-important-in-education
Friday 23 Apr '10A few recent moves in education public policy, though driven by honourable intentions, don’t recognise how quantity leads to quality.
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Friday 22 Jan '10There have been a series of recent labour market policy moves around benefits and wages that create an illusion of benefiting poor and informal sector workers.
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Friday 25 Dec '09It took a global economic crisis to make the world notice India’s long-term attractiveness.
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Thursday 19 Nov '09Most employees with a Provident Fund account don’t realise that 35% of their contribution is diverted to the horrible Employee Pension Scheme.
column-there-is-a-job-to-do-on-jobs
Friday 16 Oct '09We should be delighted that a recent Planning Commission expert group chaired by Suresh Tendulkar has recommended revising our poverty estimate from 28.5% to 40%. Why?
column-education-is-not-a-choice-of-bad-vs-worse
Wednesday 23 Sep '09The last student that got into Delhi University’s Shriram College of Commerce this year got 94% in Class 12. So the 81% that got me into this college in 1987 would not be good enough for admission today.
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Thursday 10 Sep '09An interesting discussion of whether lies are sometimes justified is in Gurcharan Das’s new and highly readable book called The Difficulty of Being Good.
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Tuesday 18 Aug '09Historian Will Durant once said that the only thing he could say with certainty after a lifetime of studying history was “this too shall pass”. In these days of public sector deification and glorification of state ownership, Air India and BSNL may be Exhibit A of how dogma around state ownership may be misplaced.
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Thursday 09 Jul '09The Rs 39,000 crore allocation to NREG in the Budget may be the largest allocation to a poverty reduction programme since independence. If taxes are the price to pay for civilisation and NREG-type programmes are the cost of getting reformist governments elected then so be it.