Month: February 2015

State Scan

All for a price

RIGHT from recruitment of employees to their promotions, transfers and revocation of suspensions to allocation of tenders for works in different residential and...

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Bose: pioneer of planning in India

CONTRARY to popular belief, the now deceased Planning Commission was not a legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru. The blueprint for this institution was outlined...

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Niti Aayog or Atithi Aayog?

WHEN I first heard the policy pronouncement of the new government that the Planning Commission was going to be abolished, I felt like...

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My way or the highway

NITIN Gadkari is gearing up to control the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Nine months have passed but there has not been...

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Ahead of BCCI election

CRICKET is no longer a gentleman’s game. It has always been about the money but that has been exposed only recently. The Supreme...

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The great Naidu dream

NARA Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, is a one-man army in the State. He is also the President of the Telugu...

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From the Editor

From the Editor

I met a senior Secretary in the Government of India last year. Belonging to a middle-class family in Uttar Pradesh—his father was a...

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Define the nuts and bolts

IN his first flush of governance reforms, the Prime Minister announced the abolition of the Planning Commission and its replacement with the National...

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From Planning to Transformation: An uphill task!

AT The Economic Times’ Global Business Summit in mid-January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out his Transformation Agenda in no uncertain terms. After...