January Editorial 2020

Cyber Security a Critical Challenge for India’s Digital Payments Ecosystem
31, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Demonetization resulted in the withdrawal of 86% of India’s total currency value in circulation, leading to an enormous increase in the adoption and dependence…
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Involving Local Communities In Rural Schools
30, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Educating and imparting quality education to the rural masses to empower and make them equal partner in the development process is one the challenges…
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Why Half-Baked Fertilizer Reforms Won’t Deliver
29, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Increasing imbalance in NPK use ratio, declining crop yield, and deterioration in soil health. India’s experience with fertiliser: India’s experience with fertilisers, in the…
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India 2024: Towards a $5-Trillion Economy?
28, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Will India become a $5-trillion economy in 2024? The optimistic view is that growth will be propelled higher by rise of the middle class,…
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Jal Jeevan Mission will Empower Women, Reduce their Drudgery
27, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: For centuries, in most parts of the country, especially in rural areas, our women have borne the responsibility of ensuring the water security of…
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Needed a Cohesive Indo-Pacific Framework
25, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Last year at the IISS Shangri-La dialogue, Prime Minister outlined India’s conceptualisation of the Indo-Pacific as a geographic continuum stretching from the east coast…
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There’s a Gandhian Third Way for an Inclusive Economy
24, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Growth Models followed by India since independence haven’t really delivered what they were expected to, and we have seen disparities worsen despite rapid…
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To Maintain Sustainability, Gram Sabhas have to be Empowered
23, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: The Union ministry of tribal affairs has taken the initiative to conduct research for the development of models of forest governance based on Gram…
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The Relationship between jobs, farming and climate
22, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Growth has slowed for the past few quarters — the past two-and-a-half years, if we go by annual growth rates. The report of the…
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Why it is Critical to Transforming Indian Agriculture
21, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: The need to scale up agriculture is getting more acute with rising global population. As per UN, by 2050, the world will have 10…
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Why ‘Make in India’ Has Failed
20, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: On September 25, 2014, the Indian government announced the ‘Make in India’ initiative to encourage manufacturing in India and galvanize the economy with dedicated…
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The Law isn’t Enough
18, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: The glaring absence of figures relating to incidents of lynching in the recently released national crime records bureau (NCRB) database on the pretext that the data…
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Why Government Must not give up on Fertiliser DBT
13, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: According to a survey by NITI Aayog, nearly two-thirds of the farmers don’t favour direct benefit transfer (DBT) of fertiliser subsidy. If this is…
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Long-Term Infrastructure Bond Market for the Private Sector is a Must
11, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context The Recent Announcement of `102 lakh crore by the finance minister was shot in arm for acceleration of mega infrastructure projects allocated across the…
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Public-Private Partnership in Agriculture Sector
10, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: A public-private partnership (PPP) is a long-term cooperative arrangement between two or more public and private sectors. Dimensions of PPP in Indian Agriculture: India…
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Data protection: Does India want to be the Big Data State After All?
09, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: India continues to prove to the world that the State needs to act like a parent for her subjects (data). The recent WhatsApp breach gave further…
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How Britain Got Ahead of us in Economic Development
08, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: India, a dominant force on the global stage until the mid-19thcentury, suddenly and almost without protest, abdicated its leadership position to a handful of…
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Focus should be on MSMEs to Address India’s Steep Employment Challenges
07, Jan 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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Lifting Growth, Containing Inflation
06, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: With GDP growth rate plummeting to 4.5 per cent and with the agriculture GDP (GDPA) growth at 2.1 per cent in the second quarter…
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Migration fuelled by Pollution crisis? Climate Change Amplifying Vulnerabilities
04, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: A recent survey indicated that the choice to migrate due to pollution has seen an increase from 35% in last year’s survey, with this…
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Minimising the Housing Divide
03, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Notwith standing growing disparities of material status in India, there is a framework to mitigate the country’s socioeconomic problems and create a common development platform…
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Six guiding principles which can be applied to Any Large Transformation Scheme
02, Jan 2020 | Editorial
Context: Governments have always focused on designing the right policies and development schemes. However, over the years, many such well-designed schemes failed to make a…
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