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Like Dalits, Infrastructure reforms suffer for want of escape velocity
- Published on 11 December 2013
CBI, from being caged parrot to wingless wonder, gasps for legal bail-out
- Published on 22 November 2013
THE Government has been taking in stride the stinging observations from the judiciary on the functioning of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in recent years till the other day.
In April last year, Rajasthan High Court reportedly observed: "The aims and objectives with which CBI was established have beencompromised and the CBI is proving counterproductive to these objects and it is high time when the agency needs to be shut down."
Suicidal UPA botched CAG probe into Coalgate
- Published on 01 September 2012
HALF-KNOWLEDGE is dangerous. So is suppression of facts. An amalgam of these two developments in the Coalgate has distorted the entire debate over the row. Unfortunately, all debate participants – UPA Government, the Opposition parties, the mainstream media and Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG ) ha vecontributed to confusingbabble . Thus, falsehood, half-truths, plain ignorance and mix-up of private gains (computed by CAG) and loss (invented by ignorant ones) have vitiated the democratic conflict resolution process.
The discourse has overshadowed the fact that the Government has already sown statutory seeds for more Coalgates in future! And this issue has escaped the notice of CAG. UPA Government's proposed coal auction blocks policy is fundamentally flawed as we will discuss later.
UPA taking India back to 1991-type economic crisis
- Published on 01 September 2012
"AS regards import compression, you may well be right that in previous years, there was some fat in the import bill. However, in the last five months, a savage import cut has been imposed and today there is no scope for any further import compression. Even the import compression that is now in place, will have serious consequences. It will hurt industrial production, lead to large scale unemployment and will give rise to serious unrest and disruption.
“It is in this context that I seek your understanding of what we have been doing to deal with the worst economic crisis in the history of Independent India. My effort is that somehow we should avoid a situation where are declared a defaulter.”