A president preaches: What should a president write on?
With revelations to justifications, Pranab Mukherjee’s last memoir begs the question, what should a president write on?
National Rail Plan: Indian Railways’ route to growth
Other than reiterating policy issues and listing operational constraints within the Railways, the primary value addition of the NRP is analysis of the existing network
Essential commodities act: The essential and the non-essential
There is an issue of de-seasonalising prices of agricultural commodities, often subject to cycles. But ECA doesn’t solve that problem. It is solved by ensuring storage and processing, allowing markets to function, not throu
A case for pre-packs: Insolvency resolution in India could benefit from pre-packs
Pre-pack incorporates the benefits of both informal and formal insolvency proceedings. In many jurisdictions, there exists a codified framework for pre-packs
Land of syrup & honey? Traceability, technology and digitisation can help ensure purity of honey
As a consumer, when you buy multi-flora honey, you probably pay Rs 400 per kg or more. But the beekeeper’s price has crashed to Rs 75 per kg, making apiculture unviable. What’s wrong?
The plain truth: Judgements should be made easier to Comprehend, by use of simpler phrasing
The unnecessary ‘latinisation’ of legal concepts also needs to be avoided
The PH factor: Why should farmers, even those in Punjab and Haryana, not have the choice?
Reforms are about choice, competition and efficiency, and those haven’t touched agriculture.
National Educational Policy: Rebooting the legacy
The real issue is amnesia about our history, roots, culture, legacy and language, and production of interpreters and clerks. That is what NEP 2020 seeks to reboot
Looking back: Breaking Through is a chatty, warm and humorous account of a full life lived well
The trigger for these articles was Isher Judge Ahluwalia, who was then working on her 1991 book on productivity and growth (for Indian manufacturing).
NEP 2020: Bibek Debroy explains philosophy behind MPhil
The NEP 2020 has done away with Mphil. it was considered an essential filter for pursuing A PhD. However, it seems to be more of an exit option
China, quid without a quo: 1954 India-China trade agreement was one-sided affair
By any yardstick, the trade agreement was one-sided, in favour of China. Today, any negotiator who agreed to this would be hauled over the coals.
Pests and Law: Drumming up support against locusts
Anything built into legislation has to be formally repealed. Consequently, an anachronism like Section 4(1)(2) remains. The ordinance should have lapsed
Robinson Crusoe’s skills: Because of the virus, some autarky vis-à-vis the external world is inevitable
But Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson (published 1812) are also a metaphor for something else, that of self-reliance, which is why economists coined the expression, Robinson Crusoe economy.
Risk, uncertainty and COVID-19: A stark choice
Risk has a known probability distribution. For uncertainty, the probability distribution is unknown. Covid-19 makes us confront uncertainty, not risk
Covid-19 Pandemic: Why India urgently needs a uniformed statute
The seventh schedule lists health as a state subject, and different states have provisions that aren’t necessarily uniform and harmonised.
Bite that beetle: Entomophagy promises smaller environment footprint, higher food conversion efficiency
Two billion people eat insects today, but for many, they are not part of mainstream diet. With global population soaring, humans will be forces to seek them out as a food source.
Distorted balance of India’s population pyramid: Ageing population creates pressing economic concern
With declining birth and death rates having distorted the balance of the population pyramid, social security for senior citizens has become a pressing economic concern
Indian Railways reforms: A single cadre for Railways management
The newly minted Indian Railways Management service can break down the silos that plague the Railways. But this will not be without its challenges
Indian Railways departmentalism worse than 1905! Reforms to cut Railway Board, merge cadre the right step
Departmentalism plagued the management of the railways, the railway board reform addresses this
Salt bureaucracy pounding salt
With other departments/bodies having assumed most of their functions, the most that Salt departments can do today is to exploit the land they own.
Justice delayed: Are fast-track courts fast enough?
In 2017, Fast-track courts in only six states managed to dispose 50% of their cases within a year.
Swachh Bharat shows how to nudge the right way
Setting up a ‘behaviour insight team’ in the govt, to help different ministries incorporate psychological and cognitive dimensions in public policy, may be useful.
Junk Boilers Act and relook Seventh Schedule
With perceptions about inspections by private companies having changed, the Indian Boilers Act, 1923, and the entire Seventh Schedule, needs a relook.
Restructuring of centrally sponsored schemes cannot be done without consultation with states
A CSS restructuring/rationalisation debate requires relook at the Seventh Schedule, and cannot be done without consultation with states at an appropriate forum.
Giving legal rights to water bodies a great leap forward
Without contesting pollution in Ganga and Yamuna, one should be sceptical of lists and rankings, both because of data problems (there are good data only for OECD) and because of the way numbers are used
India’s economic journey: A fountain-pen story
Though fountain-pens weren’t branded, the ink certainly was. It was, and had to be, Sulekha. Sulekha Works, started initially in 1934 in what is now Bangladesh, was identified with self-reliance and the Independence movemen
GDP revisions and what has been said on growth numbers
Revising GDP series isn't unusual. Nor should one ascribe a malignant motive to a continuous and evolving process.
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