The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 20, 2006

Pricing problems
THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF the Rangarajan Committee on Taxation and Pricing of Petroleum Products are worthy, save for one important aspect — the pricing policy for petrol and diesel. The Committee's recommendation on this issue is a major ... More

ECONOMY

Private sector performance
IT IS high time the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) undertook a comprehensive study of the performance of the private sector in the 15 years after liberalisation. If nothing else, at the minimum, ... More

Modernising the village economy
The fruits of economic development fall where educated people live, not where they work. Hence, if we want to enrich villages, we should induce the educated to live there. But for this to happen we need to install reliable means of social services an d transport and other systems that are on a par with what is available in the cities, says P.V. Indiresan. More

FOREIGN TRADE

Does SAFTA have a future?
The signs are not at all propitious for the South Asia Free Trade Area agreement to deliver the goods. The key to successful implementation of SAFTA lies in the hands of Islamabad and, going by the hints dropped by the Musharraf regime, it does not s eem likely that the key will be used soon to open up the South Asian economies to the advantages the agreement could offer. More

PETROLEUM

Report of panel on energy security — Confines itself to known technologies
THE Planning Commission had set up an Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of eminent economist and Member, Planning Commission, Dr Kirit Parikh, to prepare an energy policy linked with sustainable development that ... More

POLITICS

Talk about globalisation
THE world is in a turmoil all because of cartoons in a newspaper most have not heard of published in a country with fewer people than live in Chennai. Let's review the facts. A Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten, in ... More

WATER

Learning to revere water
If the State's Water Policy takes root, perhaps Kerala too will count among the regions and cultures that value and manage water resources responsibly. More

MANAGEMENT

Grooming general managers
THE most important task facing the CEOs of many Indian companies, both of the traditional engineering and manufacturing kind as well as the more modern ones, is how to groom a cadre of business managers very quickly. ... More

LETTERS

Banking issues

A simpler tax regime

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