Planned spending, informed planning
Sushant K Singh and Ramavtar Yadav make a case for police reforms in today’s Mint.
Social and economic security needs to be immediately adopted as one of the Plan sectors by the commission. This sector should set national objectives and provide assured resources—funds, manpower, equipment and training—for policing and encompass crimes, crimogens, criminal [...]
India needs comprehensive military reforms, not mere salary increases for officers
In today’s op-ed in Mint, Sushant & I argue that rather than merely addressing military pay and procurement in isolation, India needs to urgently conduct a fundamental overhaul of its armed forces.
Regarding freezing defence expenditure
Your decision to freeze Pakistan’s defence expenditure as “a show of its desire for peace with neighbours” is welcome. We even hope that you will someday be able to control that budgetary head.
You also hoped “to see a reciprocal gesture from our neighbour for the sake of peace and prosperity of [...]
How you should react if the government increases taxes to subsidise petrol
Over at Barbad Katte, Ramesh makes a startling call:
Here is a possible response to the Petroleum Minister’s proposal to levy a cess on income tax payers in lieu of a hike in the price of fuel. Get hold of your neighbourhood Congress man and [...]
They destroyed the paddle. Schitt creek* is coming up
Growth in industrial production fell to 3%, the lowest in six years, indicating that bad times might be ahead. There’s worse. As Niranjan Rajadhyaksha demonstrates, the UPA government has frittered away the opportunity to put the economy on the footing to handle the coming problems. In the [...]
Listen to the voice of the revolution
Pragati will be available in a specially produced podcast edition, from April 7th onwards. It will provide a broad overview of the articles in the month’s issue of Pragati. Mohit Satyanand, your host, will read out key segments from the articles. You’ll be able to listen to the podcast [...]
Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
The unkindest cut Salil Tripathi
The loan waiver keeps poor farmers where they are
Waiver of mass debt Vijay Mahajan
How that money could have been used to really change lives
Concerning senior citizens Mukul G Asher &? Deepa Vasudevan
Budget 2008-09 and the implications for a greying population
Waiting for modernisation Sushant K Singh & Nitin Pai
The dismal state of long term [...]
Defence budgeting and procurement processes need a overhaul
That the procurement process is holding back defence modernisation is relatively well-known. In today’s op-ed in Mint, Sushant and I throw more light on another aspect: only a small fraction of India’s defence budget is available for modernisation.
Excerpts:
Putting resources to better use.
Effective use of money by the [...]
The onward march of communal socialism
The UPA’s most unfortunate strategy of earmarking government expenditure along community lines continues apace. The latest in this juggernaut is the Prime Minister’s 15-point programme for the welfare of minorities. It contains, among other things, measures to allocate greater resources for the teaching of Urdu, for modernising Madrasa education, for [...]
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