It is likely that an EGoM will be set up to develop a manufacturing policy, a news report tells us.…

In my SK Dey Centenary Memorial Lecture in 2006, at the National Institute of Rural Development, I had argued that…

For almost a decade we have seen the most amazing stop/go policies in fertiliser, and urea pricing, in particular.

The finance minister has declared that ?for both kerosene and fertilisers, the Government will move towards direct transfer of cash…

Having endorsed the agricultural strategy of the Union Budget and asked for its implementation to be put on the fast…

It is high time we got back to the policy reform mode. Land rights and a market for land transactions,…

The growth story is under some strain. India took note of the last downturn around six months late. By that…

From my cottage close to a nature park, far away from Delhi, the happenings in our Republic in recent weeks…

Gujarat has introduced an interesting land policy for industrialisation, which may well be the beginning of the end of the…

There were severe critiques of Nehru?s economic thinking in policymakers documents in the 1992-97 period and in 2004-05. There has…

I had said in my last column that India?s interests lie in harmonising financial rules with growth and in stabilising…

By 1980s? end, India?s development and security paradigms were being reinvented. Rajiv Gandhi was laying down the new vision and…

The mid-term appraisal of the Eleventh Plan, now on the Internet without much fanfare, giving way to the tweeting on…

The announcement of the import parity principle for pricing of the products of new investments in projects producing nitrogenous fertilisers…

Under ideal conditions, grain storage options in India are built up from the buffer stock strategies. These, in turn, are…

Most villages have a bhuva who forces the gods to make it rain. And if this doesn?t work, he can…