Banning old vehicles is retrograde: Vehicle’s fitness, not age, should be the criteria for scrapping
Instead of a vehicle’s age, let’s use fitness as the criterion for determining whether it’s allowed to ply on the…
The new urea project at Talcher will worsen the already unsustainable fertiliser subsidy burden as retention price at this project…
The Rs 3 lakh crore channeled via RLRBSD is merely another bailout for discoms. The only obligation placed on them…
The fertiliser subsidy allocation for FY22 signals there will be no reform this fiscal; deficit targets show this is unlikely…
It will, of course, cause a revenue shortfall for states, but that can be dealt with by hiking the rate…
Mandatory MSP and Levies on non-APMC markets will be an assault on the reforms the Union government has ushered in…
The govt must free up urea pricing and opt for direct transfer of fertiliser subsidies to farmers; no other steps…
Instead of ending urea price control and the fertiliser subsidy—replacing it with DBT for farmers—the govt continues to choose zero-impact…
The regulator itself refuses to see that competition is being crushed, and even when it sees, its ruling is stayed…
A uniform tax rate of 15% (17.1% with add-ons) will, among other things, minimise tax litigation that arises largely due…
A cue is available from the stance taken by SC itself in case of unpaid dues from public sector undertakings…
Agro-chemical majors won’t find India attractive for investment, as long as the regulator micro-manages even production decisions
With crude price low, the govt should think of moving completely to DBT for food, fertiliser and power.
Given the nature of the crisis, all concerned states should promptly release funds from their budgets to enable discoms to…
Despite the govt window dressing numbers, it is expected to exceed FY20’s fiscal deficit target. reforms are urgently needed to…
Freebies provided by state governments need to consider the fiscal burden they will lead to, and must not be used…
Far from subsidy allocations coming down, as the Economic Survey had recommended, there is significant increase not reflected in govt…
If the government wants to restrict subsidised supply only to small and marginal farmers having landholding size
