Category Archives: General

Finance Minister in his Budget has proposed launch of an all Woman Bank in public sector. Perhaps, he may want to consult SEWA Bank, an all women bank serving women customers. It has been functioning since 1974. The Bank works … Continue reading →

Farmer suicide is yet another indication of risky nature of farming, and one reason why many farmers wish to exit farming. Despite India having the largest programme of crop insurance in the world with more than 25 million farmers insured … Continue reading →

A Producer Company is a new format of structure devised to improve the working of agriculture sector. Over next few posts, SRRF Dialogue will look at this structure, its origins, current status and likely future developments. Hope the members would find this useful. Introduction … Continue reading →

BRICS (consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is planning to launch a new Development Bank. The idea formally launched last March in a summit meeting of the leaders of the five emerging economies. Presently a working Group … Continue reading →

As per an Asia-Pacific Report released by Merril Lynch, despite the economic slowdown there has been steady increase in High Net Worth Individuals in Asia-Pacific markets.  In India the numbers have risen almost by 21%. A High Net Worth has … Continue reading →

For India, development has always being a mixed bag of opportunities as well as neglect and deprivations. It is a well established fact that majority of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, landless agricultural labourers, poor farmers and slum dwellers, etc … Continue reading →

Under pressure from various forces, the Central Government has taken a host of changes in vigilance operations within ministries. It has ordered each ministry to define and set up new mechanisms to curb corruption in its respective department. Along with … Continue reading →

Several state governments still have stringent punishment for hawkers hawking in the restricted areas. For instance, In Mumbai, for example, a hawker at present can be imprisoned for hawking in a no-hawking zone. This will no longer be considered as … Continue reading →

It is estimated that India has one third of the world’s poor. Recently, Tendulkar Committee Report has been published. This gives state wise change in poverty figure over the period 2004-05 and 1993-94. Given below is the table indicating this … Continue reading →

The agriculture sector in India has been characterized with high supply of labour than demand, low wages, and limited options of earning livelihood. In recent past, due to the increased rural-to-urban migration and the inception of MGNREGS in 2006 and … Continue reading →