The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.
November 24,1998 00:00:00 AM
There was a time when we struggled to get acceptance of the requirement that in the different soil and water regimes of the country, special...
November 10,1998 00:00:00 AM
Last time we had set the problem of education, health, drinking water and access in India's villages. Since the silly season is soon expecte...
October 27,1998 00:00:00 AM
You go to a village and anywhere between eight and ten young men surround you. They are educated and don’t have jobs. ...
October 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
Rural Ahmedabad is at an interesting environmental tripod. To its south is the central and south Gujarat plains: fertile, alluvial and bl...
September 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
Twenty years ago I had met a young farmer who grew cane. He had built a pucca house and he had bought a motorcycle. His father was alive....
August 18,1998 00:00:00 AM
The Cauvery episode is showing that it is not enough to leave river water disputes to judicial resolution alone -- political statesmanshi...
August 04,1998 00:00:00 AM
Pesticides are in the news, because apparently farmers buy a lot of them, they are expensive, so they borrow money at high interest rates...
July 21,1998 00:00:00 AM
In my first job in a national management institute by far the best student was Vasant Gangavene. His peers are CMDs of multinational and ...
June 23,1998 00:00:00 AM
We have a fairly detailed drill for handling natural calamities. Most flood, drought or cyclone-affected areas go through mock action plans ...
May 26,1998 00:00:00 AM
Canal area is not growing. Almost the entire expansion of irrigation is from private investment in pumping water. Alternative styles of irri...
May 12,1998 00:00:00 AM
Why can't we help those who help themselves? There is a part of India blessed by good soils and average rainfall of fifty inches or more. In...
April 30,1998 00:00:00 AM
After the early seventies when India stopped depending on large scale grain imports, agriculture ceased to be a salon subject. But according...
April 25,1998 00:00:00 AM
A recent newspaper article on big projects makes the interesting point that the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) had cut down the approve...
