April Editorial 2020

Importance of MSME
30, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: As India battles an economic slowdown and myriad other associated problems, attention is bound to be deflected from the ever-present Priority of Job Creation…
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Online Education: Ending an Apartheid
29, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: Just seven of India’s 993 Universities have online-education licenses; meanwhile, as the Lockdown shows, foreign varsities make hay of the Indian demand for Online…
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Sharp Fall in Oil Prices is Opportunity for India to Increase Stockpile
28, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: Oil prices continue to decline globally, with crude hitting multi-decade lows, as global demand evaporates. Slump in Oil Prices: The Economic Consequences of COVID-19 are going…
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Need Faster Labour Reforms if the Economy is to Thrive
27, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: In its six years, the NDA Government has Moved Painstakingly slowly on Labour Reform. The main changes in labour legislation, so far, relate to…
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Digitally Ready: Need to Address Fears
25, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context There is often anguish, on why adoption of digital payments is slow. In this context, we will analyse the digital connectivity in India. Understanding…
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How Precarious are State Finances?
24, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Corona Crisis has brought the Country’s Fiscal Health into focus as never before. The sudden escalation in expenditure demands is starkly opposed to…
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Pre-Retirement Judgments and Post-Retirement Jobs
23, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: A former CJI, Ranjan Gogoi, being nominated by the President to the Rajya Sabha and taking oath as Member of Parliament. Independence of Judiciary: Constitutional appointees to…
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Putting the SAGAR Vision to the Test
22, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: Following a request from New Delhi, the Indian Ocean Commission granted observer status to India on March 6 at the Commission’s 34thCouncil of Ministers.…
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Aspirational District Programme: a New kind of Government
21, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) is one of the largest experiments on outcomes-focused Governance in the world. Spread across 115 of India’s socio-economically challenged…
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Covid-19 Crisis: Farming Needs Urgent Action
20, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Covid-19 crisis is likely to pose a serious challenge to agriculture and rural economy. Immediate supply-chain disruptions could translate into demand contraction later…
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Institutional Fixes and the Need for Ethical Politics
18, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Political Skulduggery in Madhya Pradesh represents a New Method of bypassing the anti-defection law and toppling Elected Governments Under this Novel Method, a…
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A Blueprint to Revive the Economy
17, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: Roughly 400 million workers in India who are dependent on daily wages for their Survival. A lockdown is necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19.…
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Skill Development: A Way Forward
16, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The National Policy for Skill Development states that 54% of India’s population is below 25 years of age and 62% is aged between 15…
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Economic Liberalisation and its Faults
15, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: 1991-92 economic reforms marked the beginning of the end of the ‘Licence Raj’ in India. The reforms included the reduction of import duties and paved…
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Ambedkar and the Poona Pact
14, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: On the 129thyear of his birth on April 14 this year, we would do well to remember Ambedkar as much for the Poona Pact…
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From Plate to Plough: Deaths, Destitution and Democracy
13, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: India must use the corona-crisis to reform the agri-marketing system by abolishing the APMC Act, promoting e-NAM, and allowing warehouses to double up as…
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Courts Must Adopt Technology Faster
11, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: After the Kerala and Bombay High Courts’ successful use of a video-conferencing app to live-stream proceedings, courts in India, including the lower courts, need…
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Not in Good Health
10, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The recent Covid-19 Outbreak has exposed the medical industry’s fault-lines by bringing India’s heavy reliance on imports to the forefront. Brief Background: The medical…
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5G Technologies: Call for a Better Future
09, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Why in News? The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the way we work and live. With social distancing being the norm, dependence on telecom and internet…
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Cyber Security a Critical Challenge for India
08, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: India is currently witnessing a rise in emails related to Covid-19. Most of these contain attachments on charity, research, etc. Some are from businesses…
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Learn from Singapore: Key Take Away from the Island-Nation’s Water turnaround Story
07, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: Depleting water resources and the importance of water management. Need of Water Management: Indian cities have witnessed unprecedented growth over the past few decades…
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Reducing Farm Distress during a Pandemic
06, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: Social distancing and living under a lockdown appear to be the only effective ways of dealing with the pandemic. As India lacks the resources to significantly…
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Artificial Intelligence and its Challenges
04, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: According to a recent survey 65% of global and 62% of Indian CEOs have implemented AI in some form. What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial…
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Risk Management in a World that is Interwoven and Unpredictable
03, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: No epidemiologist could have predicted yet another leap of a zoonotic virus from the animal world to humans. But that such a thing could happen…
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Thinking National, Acting Local
02, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Attack by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has highlighted, once again, both the bad shape of the Indian economy and the precariousness in the lives of millions…
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The Coronavirus Lockdown and India’s Urban Vulnerables
01, Apr 2020 | Editorial
Context: While rural India is poorer than its urban counterpart, in the COVID-19 crisis, it is the urban poor who are far more vulnerable with…
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