DBT will save the government quite a lot on the subsidy by eliminating misuse and ensuring better targeting through Aadhaar…
Under a special package for deep/ultra-deep, high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) fields announced in March 2016, the supplies therefrom are allowed ‘premium’ price,…
These anomalies have cropped up because our policymakers are still stuck to the 1970s/80s thinking, geared towards increasing fertiliser usage
The Parliamentary standing committee on agriculture in its 2015-16 report—Impact of chemical fertilisers and pesticides on agriculture and allied sectors…
Addressing the 9th Global Agriculture Leadership Summit on September 8, 2016, chemicals and fertiliser minister, Ananth Kumar proclaimed that neem-coating…
The ministry’s decisions reflect a mindset that views MMBL as an exploitative monopoly. This perception is flawed and out of…
Even if the lower end of 12% is applied to fertilisers, it would be double the existing duty
The problem lies in the government de facto shutting the door for FDI in multibrand offline retail.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is perceived to be a crusader when it comes to plugging leakages from the subsidy distribution…
It needs to get ERPs updated and purchases from poor farmers excluded from product-specific subsidy maths.
With reforms in fertilisers and food stuck in a groove, it is but natural that the government is shirking from…
Once patent-linkage gets embedded in our law, cheap drugs won’t get market entry
Allowing 100% FDI in e-tail will make it easier for tax authorities to bring e-com firms under the tax net.
The Centre must deduct the discoms’ losses from the devolution of taxes to the erring states
The subsidy regime, covering both subsidy rates and payment terms, for P&K fertilisers should be brought in sync with urea
The real reason for diversion of urea to industrial use, smuggling, black marketing and its excessive use is its ridiculously…
The government has to contend with project and technical imponderables that affect the revival plans for fertiliser PSUs
Direct transfer of subsidy to farmers holds the key to countering all ills afflicting the fertiliser sector…
