The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 09, 2002

Disinvestment derailed
DISINVESTMENT, THE BUZZWORD of recent times and perceived by many as the flavour of the reforms process, certainly deserved a better deal than what it got from the Vajpayee Government on Saturday. The chain of events leading up to the week-end ... More

ECONOMY

RBI Annual Report for 2001-02 — Creditable financial management
THE RBI's Annual Report for 2001-02 tells a credible and creditable story of an economy well-managed, both on the domestic and external fronts, with reasonable price stability and a rate of growth that exceeds that of many other similarly placed ... More

Vision 2020 — The importance of planning
Plans need not be made for nuts and bolts but are essential to prevent future bottlenecks. If enough cushion is provided for the future, the economy will grow, smooth and fast. Else, development will be disorderly and tardy. With this basic need of planning overlooked, India's economic development remains retarded, says P. V. Indiresan. More

WATER MANAGEMENT

Karnataka and Constitution
THE reaction of the Karnataka Government to the Supreme Court's verdict ordering it to begin releasing 1.25 tmc of Cauvery water per day for Tamil Nadu was characteristically grudging and dilatory. This, when the apex court had directed that the ... More

MANAGEMENT

How to train your boss
WORK dominates our lives. When we first meet someone, after introducing our names, the next question asked is `where do you work?' Our identity is so closely determined by where we work and what work we do that it causes serious problems ... More

FINANCIAL POLICY

Debt management offices — The changing contours
TWO years ago, in one of those rare instances, the work of a committee involving the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India, ultimately ended up as an internal report of North Block. For, half-way through, the country's central bank ... More

DISINVESTMENT

Why disinvestments must go on
THE disinvestment exercise — politically the correct word for privatisation — is at a crucial stage, pulled in various directions by political and business interests. At stake is the fiefdom of public sector units. But, looking at ... More

Which way disinvestment?
THERE is little doubt now that the experiment begun with official disinvestment in public sector units some years ago, albeit with little success till very recently, is at a crossroads. Briefly, if the reforms future for the economy is to be ... More

LETTERS

Kashmir imbroglio

Hasty action

UTI clarifies

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Why disinvestments must go on

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