Category: Insights into Editorial

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Insights into Editorial: Make planning fashionable again

Insights into Editorial: Make planning fashionable again     Background on Planned Economy: A planned economy is a type of economic system where investment and the allocation of capital goods take place according to economy-wide economic and production plans. A planned economy may use centralized, decentralized or participatory forms of economic planning. India under Nehru’s …

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Insights into Editorial: Without maternity benefits

Insights into Editorial: Without maternity benefits Introduction: Under – nutrition continues to adversely affect majority of women in India. In India, every third woman is undernourished and every second woman is anaemic. An undernourished mother almost inevitably gives birth to a low birth weight baby. When poor nutrition starts in utero, it extends throughout the …

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Insights into Editorial: India ease of doing business rank jumps 23 places to 77 in World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 survey

Insights into Editorial: India ease of doing business rank jumps 23 places to 77 in World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 survey Context: India’s rank in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019 survey climbed 23 places to 77 among 190 countries surveyed, making it the only country to rank among the top 10 improvers …

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Insights into Editorial: Support for lives on the move

Insights into Editorial: Support for lives on the move Introduction: Internal Migration in India: Internal migration can be driven by push and/or pull factors. In India, over the recent decades, agrarian distress (a push factor) and an increase in better-paying jobs in urban areas (a pull factor) have been drivers of internal migration. The Economic …

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Insights into Editorial: The unifier of modern India

Insights into Editorial: The unifier of modern India   Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Statue of Unity – the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, in Gujarat’s Kevadiya, on Patel’s birth anniversary. He became one of the most influential leaders in Gujarat as he organised the peasants of Kheda, Borsad, and Bardoli …

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Insights into Editorial: Churn in the Neighbourhood: Bhutan | New PM, new challenges

Insights into Editorial: Churn in the Neighbourhood: Bhutan | New PM, new challenges Context: Tshering Tobgay will be new Prime Minister of Bhutan. Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa Party has won the recent general elections in Bhutan. The National Assembly is the lower house of Bhutan Parliament. This is the third general election after democracy was adopted in …

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Insights into Editorial: Defusing tensions: on CBI feud

Insights into Editorial: Defusing tensions: on CBI feud Context: The recent happenings at the CBI are unprecedented. Never has the premier investigating agency of the country been in similar crisis. These events will have ramifications on the dignity, discipline and image of CBI. The question that should be troubling us is how are things so …

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Insights into Editorial: Think small: Decentralised sludge management systems

Insights into Editorial: Think small: Decentralised sludge management systems   Introduction: The nationwide sanitation movement of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has been successful in not just eradicating open defecation from numerous towns and villages across India, but is also creating a national consciousness in terms of sanitation and cleanliness. But the mere task of building toilets …

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Insights into Editorial: Turf battle: on independent payments regulator

Insights into Editorial: Turf battle: on independent payments regulator   Context: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Union government are once again at loggerheads over the legitimate extent of their powers. The central bank made public its reservations against the government’s plans to set up an independent payment’s regulator, potentially setting the stage …

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Insights into Editorial: Lip service to labour rights

Insights into Editorial: Lip service to labour rights   Introduction: According to the State of World Population report, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and the number is steadily growing every year. India, where the majority of the population is still dependent on agriculture, is no exception to this trend. …

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Insights into Editorial: A security architecture without the mortar

Insights into Editorial: A security architecture without the mortar   Introduction: (Critical views about National Security) : India’s national security environment has steadily deteriorated since 2014. New Delhi’s neighbourhood policy continues to be in the doldrums and there is a clear absence of vision on how to balance, engage and work with the many great …

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Insights into Editorial: Bonding with Africa, in partnership

Insights into Editorial: Bonding with Africa, in partnership   Context: Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC): Chinese President Xi Jinping grabbed headlines by announcing a hefty $60 billion package for Africa. African leaders have been naturally expressing overwhelming happiness after Mr. Xi’s announcement in Beijing at the inaugural of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The …

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Insights into Editorial: Helping the invisible hands of agriculture

Insights into Editorial: Helping the invisible hands of agriculture Context: Since 2017, October 15 is celebrated as Rashtriya Mahila Kisan Diwas in India. UN observed this day as International Day of Rural Women by the United Nations. In 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare decided to take the lead in celebrating the event, …

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Insights into Editorial: The great Indian abdication

Insights into Editorial: The great Indian abdication     Introduction: The mission of deepening democracy and protecting and advancing social freedoms is placed solely on the Judiciary, but the role of Parliament is forgotten. After the slew of verdicts by the Supreme Court, on triple talaq, Section 377, adultery, and the Sabarimala temple, a prominent …

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Insights into Editorial: When a woman is harassed at work

Insights into Editorial: When a woman is harassed at work   Context: Accusations of sexual assault have spread across India’s social media as the #MeToo movement took aim at prominent journalists, writers, editors and a comedian. Scores of women, many journalists, came out this week with accounts of sexual harassment from colleagues and editors, accusing them …

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