Special Report
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Dileep Ranjekar: Our Biggest Challenge is to Improve Teaching competence
While we have taken the school to children in over 99 percent of our villages, the quality and equity of education has remained elusive
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Akhil Gupta: Let the Sun Free India from a CAD Crisis
Investment in solar power can lead to a significant improvement in the balance of payments by reducing energy imports as well as, eventually, driving down power tariffs for end-users
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Ajay Shah: The State Should Enter the Picture Only When Markets Fail
A key pillar of a sound state is accountability. Alongside precise objectives and precise powers, we need layer upon layer of accountability mechanisms
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Manish Sabharwal: Why the God of Jobs Doesn't Smile on India
There is a dire need for policy and politics to combine to build a serious narrative around non-farm formal job creation
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India can't be a Jugaad Economy Forever
India has to implement key reforms in at least three areas—energy, land and labour—to get its economy back on track. It also needs to expand the ambit of economic and political freedom
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Surjit Bhalla: Why Ending Doles Will Help The Poor
The government’s fixation on bad subsidies is supporting corruption, not the poor
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Bibek Debroy: Between the 'Illfare' State and the Deep Sea
Great damage was done by changing the Preamble in our Constitution to make India ‘socialist’. What we have as a result is not a welfare state, but an ‘illfare’ one
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Yogendra Yadav: India is a State-Nation, Not a Nation-State
India has created a new model to democratically deal with deep diversities. It accepts that political boundaries do not and need not coincide with cultural boundaries
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Bimal Patel: We Have to Free Our Cities from the State's Clutches
The country’s creaking infrastructure has been unable to support its cities’ rapid growth. Local governments should be granted autonomy to increase productivity
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Jagdeep Chhokar: Why Does Our Political Process Produce Rotten Leaders?
By resisting reforms and efforts to introduce transparency in their functioning, the political establishment is defeating the purpose of democracy
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: When Business Bats Against Itself
Indian capitalism is the single biggest obstacle to further economic reform. It still inhabits a world of deals rather than rules