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Most employees with a Provident Fund account don’t realise that 35% of their contribution is diverted to the horrible Employee Pension Scheme.
We 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?
The 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.
An interesting discussion of whether lies are sometimes justified is in Gurcharan Das’s new and highly readable book called The Difficulty of Being Good.
Historian 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...
The 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...
Most expectations from the finance ministry around the Union Budget are unfair, irrational and imprudent. The ministry’s control of purse strings give it power, but it does not have the mandate to issue fatwas around issues that are multi-ministry and involve the legislature.
This May has seen much labour trouble: Mahindra & Mahindra, Hyundai, Cochin Port Trust, Nestle, Malayalam Cinema Technicians Associations, Goa PWD workers, and the National Union of Seafarers of India Wockhardt hospital.
Last years tragic terror incident in Mumbai drove home the internal security upsides of a unique ID number on a smart photo identity card for every Indian. Of late policy makers have reluctantly begun to accept that the current “spray and pray” strategy in subsidies for the...
