The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Murky MSP
JUST WHEN THE minimum support price (MSP) for foodgrains will cease to be an instrument of political patronage is hard to tell. The latest is the controversy over the MSP for rice for the 2002-03 season. Despite the recommendation of the ... More

AGRICULTURE

Can Indian agriculture become globally competitive?
INDIAN AGRICULTURE faces several challenges. These are both internal and external. Internal challenges have been with us for some time, they are well recognised and need to be addressed urgently. External challenges have emerged in recent years ... More

ECONOMY

Economy at the crossroads
The RBI Annual Report for 2001-02 makes several prescriptions for the economy's medium-term growth, including legislative changes relating to ownership; regulatory focus; development of financial markets and fiscal empowerment, especially in regard t o State finances. It particularly stresses that the progressive reduction of government equity holding in non-strategic enterprises through the disinvestment route needs to be pursued vigorously — a point the Government would do well to heed, says G. Srinivasan. More

POLITICS

Poll polemics in Gujarat
THE Supreme Court has sifted chaff from the grain by, as it were, de-linking the issues raised in the Presidential reference with that of the Election Commission's order, expressing its inability to hold the elections in Gujarat before October 6. ... More

Mis-governance: India's bane
TO even a casual student of politics, what strikes as India's No.1 problem is absence of good governance. The Common Minimum Programme of the non-homogenous NDA has practically faded into insignificance. The BJP as the major constituent unit of ... More

BANKING

Co-op banks in Gujarat — A crumbling edifice
The customer would not be too interested in the post-mortem that invariably follows a particular bank collapse. What is of paramount importance is how another debacle like the one that hit the Surat Urban Co-operative Bank, can be averted. More

Banking on HR initiatives
With the changing times, bank managers need to spend more time developing business and servicing clients than sorting out such issues as who will fill up cash in ATMs or who among the clerks will operate the passbook printer. More

INTERVIEW

`Centre's apathy is hurting' — Prof Mohammed Basheer Dabla, Dept of Sociology, Kashmir University
With the Centre refusing to show "any seriousness" in tackling the Kashmir imbroglio, the Hurriyat and Shabir Shah's party staying away from the polls, the weary and frustrated Kashmiri people have little to hope for in the near future, says ... More

LETTERS

`Mid-term review'

Challenges before CAs

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