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Sep 30, 2021 03:07 PM IST The main plank of the DBT is targeting. Beneficiaries can be identified based on their economic status. No business should be made to supply free, and then wait fretfully for the government to reimburse the resultant loss. Subsidy is an arrangement between citizens and the government. Businesses should not get embroiled in it
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Mar 31, 2021 10:35 AM IST These bodies can handhold their members through the maze of marketplace so that the farmers remain profitable
- Feb 11, 2021 03:18 PM IST
It is strange that the current Congress leadership should decry the role of corporates when its own government in 1991 made the economy leapfrog, thanks to decisive liberalisation measures that unshackled entrepreneurs
- Feb 11, 2021 12:20 PM IST
The government no longer thinks it’s necessary to camouflage reforms. That is a momentous change
- Feb 11, 2021 11:22 AM IST
Freedom of expression is the life blood of democracies, but hate speech and incitement to violence need to be firmly disallowed
- Feb 11, 2021 10:41 AM IST
Washington does not have the political currency to make grandiose statements. Instead, regular concerns will be laced with prosaic and benign verses
- Feb 08, 2021 02:58 PM IST
Prime Minister defends farm reforms, says India can achieve great things if it comes together as one
- Jan 29, 2021 08:34 AM IST
Mass movements are known to go off course because of the inability of its authors to always be in control of circumstances and forces at play
- Jan 27, 2021 12:56 PM IST
If the government’s strategy is to tire the farmers into returning their homes, it seems to have underestimated the trust deficit between itself and the protesting farmers
- Jan 27, 2021 12:12 PM IST
Parliamentary democracy cannot be held hostage by violent interest groups working to protect their oppressive social and political power at expense of the masses
- Jan 13, 2021 04:23 PM IST
The Supreme Court has a well-defined role under the Indian Constitution. Its excursions beyond those boundaries have far-reaching, and counter-productive, consequences
- Jan 13, 2021 03:12 PM IST
Why is the apex court taking upon itself the burden not cast on it by the Constitution? Even if the court is moved by the plight of the farmers, it could exhort them to abjure their obstinacy in taking to the streets with alacrity
- Jan 13, 2021 09:02 AM IST
In the eyes of many, the initial reaction of farmers not to go before the committee will make them appear intransigent
- Dec 31, 2020 12:40 PM IST
It’s a simple fact that for faster growth and an improvement in incomes, we need non-farm manufacturing jobs to grow in India, including Punjab. Agriculture can support only so many people and we need to move workers to better productive sectors
- Dec 31, 2020 08:35 AM IST
The Punjab vandalism coupled with the hooliganism at the Apple factory at Kolar send a wrong message to global entrepreneurs who wish to be part of India’s growth story. It shows that the Indian state is incapable of safeguarding private property
- Dec 30, 2020 08:35 AM IST
The first thing economic growth requires is trust, stability and law and order. If India continues on the path of political opportunism and populism pandering to one set of private producers' unjust demands, it is doomed to be trapped forever in the low-income category
- Dec 30, 2020 08:27 AM IST
Big business is welcome so long as it operates within the rules. The government must reach out to the public and explain that it is such large groups with their large investments that can help transform India faster
- Dec 29, 2020 08:46 AM IST
The farmers fail to understand that, at the end of the day, farming will become more efficient, their incomes will rise, consumer prices will become more predictable and farm trade will greatly benefit
- Dec 22, 2020 11:03 AM IST
By undertaking reforms, the PM has shown his intent to drive up the sector. Through empathy and consultation, the Modi government should now bring convergence with the stakeholders
- Dec 18, 2020 08:48 PM IST
Farmers should take the PM's call to discuss all their concerns. By offering to discuss, Narendra Modi has opened up the door for those willing to find a solution to the current stalemate
- Dec 18, 2020 07:17 PM IST
Intervention from the highest level should assuage the concerns of the protesting farmers. Now, a breakthrough in talks is expected, and the true potential of the farm reforms will be realised
- Dec 18, 2020 01:00 PM IST
The three farm laws would have already made it clear to farmers of Punjab and Haryana that they have no option but accept the reality of the beginning of the end of unlimited procurement
- Dec 18, 2020 08:50 AM IST
In other areas of economic policy-making, we are moving away from heavy-handed State intervention characterising the period from second-half of the 1960s to 1970s. Why not agriculture?
- Dec 17, 2020 10:30 AM IST
Agriculture has remained a sensitive subject to tinker with because any well-intentioned move is fraught with huge political risks. However, the Narendra Modi-led government is walking the talk when it comes to agrarian reforms
- Dec 16, 2020 12:33 PM IST
The Centre needs to convey the importance of these reforms, convince the farmers of the short- and long-term benefits of these new laws, and ensure that reforms in the agriculture sector are here to stay
