https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/mumbais-penchant-for-costly-and-inconvenient-projects/1396746
Mumbai roots for expensive underground parking
RN Bhaskar November 15, 2018
Last week media reports talked about the new plans proposed by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to build an underground parking lot at Raosaheb Patwardhan Garden, Linking Road,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/r-n-bhaskar-the-government-gets-richer-while-people-become-poorer/1004973
Demonetisation and the shrinking bank credit
The finance minister is exultant. He proudly points to the surge in tax collections. He then uses these numbers to deny that demonetisation has led to any serious slowdown in the Indian economy. His...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-could-witness-a-dramatic-decline-in-asian-leadership
Leadership also requires markets and money. India could lose out
RN Bhaskar
There are disturbing undercurrents in the Indian markets. On the surface the waters look calm. But underneath, they are restless. Investors, like swimmers, know that venturing into such waters...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-epayments-the-government-stumbles-again/1023892
Epayments - several things the RBI and the Cabinet Secretary overlooked
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 23, 2017 08:59 am
Last week, the government came out with two announcements regarding epayments. One was through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The...
https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-policy-watch-should-individuals-groups-or-cos-charged-for-water-consumption-1994088
People must pay for the water they use
RN Bhaskar -- 8 June 2014
This is an issue that has no clear answer. There are lobbies that continue to demand that water be provided free to farmers. Then there are those...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/need-to-take-literacy-improvement-seriously-r-n-bhaskar/1282452
Very few states take literacy improvement seriously
— By RN Bhaskar | May 24, 2018
The government of India like to crow about how it has improved India’s literacy levels ever since independence. But when the numbers are studied carefully for a long...
R N Bhaskar
23 February 2015
Almost everybody is now reconciled to the inevitability of urbanisation.
Even as early as January 2007, Goldman Sachs had in its economics paper (No152) on “India’s Rising Growth Potential” pointed out how the 21st century would...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/economic-policy-little-vision-less-consultation
Auto sector revival key to economic revival
RN Bhaskar – August 22, 2019
Budget reviews are normally written within a fortnight after the papers are tabled in Parliament. This belated review comes in the wake of sharply declining sales, slashing of...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-frenetic-quest-for-talent-2029427
IITs - Frenetic quest for talent
Monday, 27 October 2014 - 6:38am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA | R N Bhaskar
As India refocuses attention on manufacturing, it should try to attract the best brains
The “Make in India” statement...
R N Bhaskar
13 April 2015
First, the caveat. This analysis is not meant to hurt the sentiments of any community. It is to present scenarios which should be considered seriously.
Now, the analysis.
True, India is the world #1 in both milk...
