The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Joblessness on the rise
Creating 10 million jobs annually during the Tenth Plan now appears to be elusive. And what is more disturbing is that the unemployment rate during the past decade has increased in spite of the relatively higher output growth and slower growth in the labour force, says S. D. Naik More

EDITORIAL

Troubles in truck loads
FOR THE THIRD time in a little over a decade, the nation's truckers have gone on a strike demanding fiscal sops and other governmental initiatives to shore up their functioning. If the past is anything to go by, a few days hence, there will be ... More

ECONOMY

Easing the subsidy burden
NEXT to interest payment /debt servicing and Defence expenditure, subsidies are the largest item of the Central Government's non-Plan expenditure. Totalling Rs 11,854 crore in 1994-95, subsidies increased to Rs 23,593 in 1998-1999; Rs 24,487 ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

Biotech: No panacea for farm sector's ills
NOT long ago a Chennai-based privately funded Foundation made what was called the "Chennai Declaration": that there is an imminent need for the public acceptance of biotechnology. A little before this, the newly appointed Director General of ... More

LABOUR REFORMS

International Labour Standards — Challenges in implementation
CERTAIN questions arise in the mind when discussing the implementation of International Labour Standards (ILS). They are: Does setting up of the ILS and the stipulation to implement them take into account the vast differences between the north ... More

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Making customer the real king
With many options nobody even looks at the old favourites. Companies went into ruin by ignoring the consumer. Interestingly those that suffered the most were the monopolists. More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Invested interests
THE Finance Minister is like God who, in his effort to make the humans think of Him always and not just when they are in hot water, struck upon the idea of keeping the race perpetually in hot water. The financial equivalent of hot water is not ... More

LETTERS

ICICI Bank rumours

State of ITI

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