Bridging the Gap: The Challenges and Reforms for Lateral Entry in Indian Bureaucracy
How does lateral entry, in news recently, in GOI pan out? A former Niti Aayog officer argues the system needs to be much more welcoming of outside experts.
Category Governance and Law
PLI Scheme Gets a Boosts: What the 2024 Budget Reveals
On July 24, 2024, the budget for 2024 was presented, bringing production-linked incentives back into focus. Budget 2024 has been seen as a subdued means of achieving our long-term objective of VIKSIT BHARAT by 2047.
India 2047: A Blueprint for Prosperity, Equality, and Innovation Empowering the Bold New Citizens of Viksit Bharat
By 2047, citizens of a prosperous India would be creative, collaborative, and liberated, embracing a modernity shaped by historical and cultural richness. What is living in the tradition would be celebrated and carried forward, what is rotten would be discarded
Thou shalt develop and grow rich, at least by the centenary of Independence. If this commandment were somehow heeded, and India were to become a high-income country, at least, by 2047, what would be the nature of a citizen of that future, prosperous India?
By the World Bank’s definition, a high-income country is defined by achieving a gross national income per capita of $13,846 or more. The trouble with average incomes is that a high level does not guarantee a comfortable standard of living for the majority: if you have highly unequal distribution of income, a super-rich minority could coexist, albeit in heavily guarded, gated communities, with a disgruntled mass of unemployed and underemployed people, with a per capita income that flatters to deceive. Think Apartheid South Africa.
Soaring Heights: The Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak Bill, 2024 – Catalyzing India’s Aviation Revolution
The Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak Bill 2024 seeks to remove the outdated laws of the aircraft bill 1934 which has also been amended 21 times at a time when India is one of the fastest growing civil aviation among its global partners and also in accordance to its 2047 vision- VIKSIT BHARAT. The Lok Sabha on Friday i.e. 9th august 2024 passed this bill to replace the 90-year-old bill and to improve the ease of doing business.
Tragedies and Systems Failure
The legal and policy regime finds itself overwhelmed by an increasingly corrupt system and decrepit society, writes Prof. Arun Kumar.
Kerala’s Prayer Controversy: A Political Tool or a Genuine Issue?
Kerala’s Muslim radicals are raising divisive demands and, amid opportunist silence on the part of the Communist and Congress parties, strengthening BJP in the state.
Need to Protect the Constitution, Not Commemorate Its Demise
Given the reality of an ongoing guerrilla war on democracy and the Constitution, it is ridiculous to nominate one particular date as Constitution Murder Day
Samvidhan Hatya Divas (Day of the murder of the Constitution)!
The government has notified yet another commemorative day for the nation. Most sections of the political class see voters as dumb tools of five-yearly legitimation of their power, and passive prey available for predation the rest of the time.