The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 01, 2003

Signalling corporatisation
THE MOST IMPORTANT point about the Rs 15,000-crore National Rail Vikas Yojana, launched by the Prime Minister last week, is that the traditional concepts of departmental project management and funding through budgetary provision will not apply to ... More

ECONOMY

India upbeat for 2003
A bold plan to revamp direct and indirect taxes, a new metro rail system built in record time for Delhi, a mega plan to wire up the whole country in the next few years... These and other achievements testify to India's resilience in the face of exter nal and internal setbacks, of which there were plenty. Should regional tensions remain contained and geo-political risks not result in an outsized increase in oil prices, in 2003 India can hope to consolidate the gains on the economic sphere, says < B>V. Anantha-Nageswaran. More

Things are really not that bad
AS WE enter yet another new year, are things really that bad? Human nature always highlights the negative, ignoring the positive. The greatest Englishman of the last century, Winston Churchill, had this to say about the way Governments work: ... More

POLITICS

Stepping into the new year
CHOICE of highlights of a year gone by is always subjective since different events are graded differently by different observers. This is particularly so in the case of a year that to me seems lacklustre. At a pinch, what comes uppermost to mind ... More

SUGAR

Enough politics, some sugar economics please
NORMALLY, these announcements are made by the Minister of Agriculture. Occasionally, the privilege has been given to the Minister of State. But on December 19, the Prime Minister himself got up in the Lok Sabha to announce that the Statutory ... More

CO-OPERATIVES

NDDB - GCMMF imbroglio — Cooperative movement in a churn
THE gloves are off and the lines drawn in the battle royale that has been brewing for a while in the heart of Indian co-operative movement at Anand. Those at the helm of the most successful State co-operative federation in India — the ... More

LETTERS

Pension problems

The importance of villages

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