The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 02, 2002

A creepy extension
THE FLEXIBILITY OF a higher limit on "creeping acquisitions" has been extended for another six months. SEBI has not come up with any valid argument for this; nor did offer any when it made the relaxation the first time round in October 2001. The ... More

EXIM POLICY

Exim Policy -- Implementation imponderables
THERE is little doubt that the Exim Policy for 2002-2007 is a radical departure from past such policies as far as direction is concerned. That direction is firmly embedded in the current general economic and trade philosophy being favoured by the ... More

FOODGRAINS

Economic access through employment -- One way to tackle food security issue
FOOD security is mainly a question of economic access at the household levels as food availability at the national level is not a problem. One of the reasons for the accumulation of over 60 million tonnes of food stocks with the Food Corporation ... More

To procure or not to procure
THE Government is debating if it should do away with the minimum support price and replace it with an income support policy by which the farmers will be compensated for the difference between the market price and the MSP. In India, ... More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Rural employment: Census picture
The newly released data from the 2001 Census of India provide a slightly different picture of rural employment growth over the period 1991-2001, than had emerged from the National Sample Surveys. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandra sekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the basic trends in rural employment that emerge from the preliminary tables of the latest Census. More

LETTERS

Power play
This refers to the article `L'affaire Sekhon' (Business Line, March 27). While agreeing with the drift of the piece, the reader cannot be blamed if he/she gains an impression that it is only of late that the younger members of the ... More

Secured convertible debentures
In the 1990s, many public limited companies came out with secured convertible debentures. The non-convertible portion of the debentures were secured with specific assets of the companies mortgaged to the debenture trustees, and these mortgages ... More

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