Manish Sabharwal
The writer is chairman, Teamlease Services.
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A translation revolution for an inclusive, prosperous India
Manish Sabharwal and Arunava Sinha write: A translation revolution is blurring aesthetic, linguistic and political borders. This will raise inclusiveness, prosperity and soft power
Wed, Aug 03, 2022
Governments must understand that resources are held in trust. They’re not to be frittered away
Manish Sabharwal writes: Chief Ministers ought to create high wage jobs, and not borrow money future generations will have to repay
Tue, May 31, 2022
Changing the skill development model
Manish Sabharwal and Rituparna Chakraborty write: Enabling degree apprentices will make the Indian skill system self-healing, enrol 10 million young people, and make India the world's largest apprenticeship system
Mon, Apr 25, 2022
Why society gains when start-ups fail
Manish Sabharwal, Neeraj Kakkar write: The few that survive will raise India’s soft power and prosperity by using improbable ideas to solve impossible problems
Fri, Mar 18, 2022
Time to end employer criminalisation
Manish Sabharwal writes: Reducing the 26,134 jail provisions in employer compliance will reduce corruption, accelerate job creation, and improve justice.
Fri, Feb 11, 2022
Lesson from Air India sale: Do more by doing less
🔴 Manish Sabharwal, Rajeev Mantri write: The government’s creativity and persistence in divesting the national carrier must be replicated with most of the remaining 360+ central PSUs
Thu, Jan 27, 2022
The three acts of entrepreneurship that accelerated India’s start-up ecosystem
Manish Sabharwal, Rajeev Mantri write: Three acts of private, nonprofit, policy intervention converged to accelerate our startup ecosystem.
Sat, Oct 30, 2021
Why India needs ‘good’ urbanisation
Manish Sabharwal and Rajiv Mehrishi write: Covid reinforces that good urbanisation is our most powerful technology for poverty reduction
Tue, Sep 21, 2021
How to unleash the entrepreneurial power of 1.3 billion Indians
Manish Sabharwal and TV Mohandas Pai write: Regulatory simplicity allowed Indian industries built on minds — software services and start-up ecosystem — to flourish. There’s a lesson here for the rest of the economy
Sat, Sep 04, 2021
A goal for India@100: Reserve the rupee
Prosperity is possible and best accomplished by the goal of making the rupee a global reserve currency by 2047.
Wed, Aug 04, 2021
Falling government school enrolment is alarming and it needs to be addressed soon
Governance must shift from control of resources to learning outcomes; learning design, responsiveness, teacher management, community relationships, integrity, fair decision making, and financial sustainability.
Sat, Jul 10, 2021
The ‘hearing aids’ helping corporate India to listen better
Thanks to these six factors, a new breed of entrepreneurs is participating in the recovery of the Covid-hit economy.
Wed, Jun 09, 2021
Covid is an opportunity to make structural changes to our largest health insurance and pension schemes
Touted as “employee welfare” schemes since the 1950s, both have failed their clients since birthing and in COVID.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021
Employed learners must exceed full-time learners for higher education justice
Many students lack employability and workers lack productivity because learning is supply-driven. Learning-by-doing ensures demand-driven learning.
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
Budget balances next quarter with next quarter-century, blends prudence, ambition
This budget reflects policymaking that is risk-taking and ambitious. More importantly, when seen with the three Covid mini-budgets and seven previous annual budgets, it reflects policymaking that is iterative.
Tue, Feb 02, 2021
All models of bank ownership and governance have bugs and features. Let there be open debate
The RBI working group challenges us to shift Indian banking to being open, big and inclusive from its current closed, small and exclusive form. No change is finalised, but let’s have an open debate without canceling the question.
Tue, Dec 08, 2020
Indian entrepreneurs don’t require protection. They need freedom
Ant IPO drama exposes China's contradictions. As global economic gravity shifts to Asia, financial services entrepreneurs must be empowered to seize the opportunity
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
Court-ordered interest waiver and bad loan recognition ban hurts common man
It sabotages economic justice because fiscally funding banking diverts money from education, health and skilling expenditure.
Wed, Oct 21, 2020
Education, labour and agriculture reforms will usher in individual freedom
The recent reform is substantial but must be followed by civil service, banking, compliance, decentralisation, and urban reform.
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
COVID economic pain will pass but we need to create enduring change for firms, citizens with reforms
Let's ignore the breathless demands for the government to borrow 10 lakh crore by stealing from our grandchildren. Let’s, instead, create climate change for our entrepreneurs, firms, and citizens with reforms that will give them economic Poorna Swaraj.
Thu, Sep 03, 2020
Bank and the Covid pain: We must persist with a multi-year five-pillar strategy to raise credit to GDP ratio to 100%
Manish Sabharwal writes: God willing, we won’t test the RBI’s COVID worst-case scenario of 14.7 per cent bad loans but handling the inevitable COVID bank pain needs resisting short-termism. In the long run, we are not all dead.
Fri, Aug 07, 2020
A three-phase govt project uses COVID policy window for a much needed reform
India’s current gap between the digitisation of the private sector and government often reflects the 1972 Dandekar Committee recommendation that no entity install a computer without first “justifying” its use to employees and their trade unions.
Thu, Jul 09, 2020
Covid crisis underlines urgency of more inclusive employment, employability and education
Education reforms are an endeavour of profound optimism but have been stifled by purists, vested interests, and regulators. It is illogical to deny the poorna swaraj that comes with the Institutes of Eminence tag to Ashoka University and Ahmedabad University or pursue regulation-driven standardisation for our 993 universities.
Mon, Jun 15, 2020
Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan lays strong foundations for raising our per capita GDP
The COVID-19 lockdown exposes how per capita GDP is more important for our citizens than total GDP.
Mon, May 18, 2020
RBI’s job involves trade-offs, not conflicts
The RBI must remember three things — acting prudently to balance the next quarter and quarter century, acting flexibly to blunt this economic cataclysm, and acting within their mandate to ensure institutional legitimacy and immunity.
Sat, May 02, 2020