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Assam’s work-for-all effort  

 First-ever State government initiative targets labour market participation The Assam government has released an employment policy aimed at the State’s inclusive, gainful and...

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‘You must have the sensitivity’

“WHENI talk about unity and integrity of our country, we have to reckon with the fact that law and order maintenance is a...

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Rise of the kleptolord

India’s institutions are being replaced by individual or dynastic hegemony The 101-medal, Rs 71,000-crore “best-ever Commonwealth Games” have made India a “super-super power”...

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Looking for alibis, not action

I am no great admirer of Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s Man Friday. But his pithy remark, “America needs a strategy, not an...

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Saying boo to corporators

My mother is 88 years old, perfectly alert and, having been born and brought up in Lahore, always reminisces about “the good old...

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Temples of new India

In the coming decade, a major challenge for the Manmohan Singh government is the expansion of university education in order to churn out...

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First, right to childhood

The Central and state governments, and the people as a whole have to be involved in making the RTE Act work High expectations...

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Midnight stroke of June ’75

The Emergency’s most fearsome legacy is that no lessons have been learnt At the stroke of the midnight hour of August 14-15, 1947,...

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RAPIDLY SPREADING ROT

INTERNECINE conflict, turf battles, naked influence peddling by lobbyists and lawyers, overlapping jurisdictions, lack of clarity on structure and mission, and inter-ministerial warfare...

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An adhocracy in the making

As part of fast-tracking administrative reforms, the Government of India is evolving a “Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System” (PMES). This task has been...