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Bureaucracy Today (BT) is proud to be a leader in governance readership and is a window for the corporate world as to what is happening in the government. The BT, an authoritative magazine has a circulation of 1.25 lakh and a readership of 6 lakh. BT readers are influential, affluent and politically powerful.
By virtue of its unrivalled capability in delivering influential readers comprehensively and reaching out to over 6.0 lakh affluent readers from policy makers to entrepreneurs to top bureaucrats, PSU technocrats, to FIIs, diplomats, economists, CEOs, to small businessmen, stock investors and more, the Bureaucracy Today is one of Indias most comprehensive and influential consumer platform. Notably, the Bureaucracy Today readers are responsible for more than 70% of the Indias GDP. Bureaucracy Today publishes highly valuable content in a unique format so that its reader may utilize and benefit from the distinctive and useful information related to India INC and the government.
Profiles and interviews of individual top corporate leaders, bureaucrats and PSU technocrats are presented in a manner that brings out and reveals the state of mind of the top industry leaders so that related stakeholder may benefit from such useful information published in Bureaucracy Today magazine.

The Good, Bad And Ugly Of IAS Coaching Business In India

Do you really have any idea of the number of IAS coaching institutes in India? While revising my book, How to Get Government Jobs? to make it a new avatar as How to Get into IAS?, I had to do research on the Internet for 10 days or so to know how many IAS coaching centres are in our country? I knew only a few established IAS coaching institutes. I was at my wits’ end when I compiled for the first time a Statewise allIndia list of IAS coaching centres of different nomenclatures and breeds operating in the country.

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'There Is Stress in Telecom Sector but Govt Will Settle It'

Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinha met telecom industry leaders amidst a raging financial crisis in the sector saddled with Rs 4.5 lakh crores of debt due to the high licence fee, spectrum usage charges, the USO levy and the burden of paying spectrum auction dues in shortest possible time blocking the flow of funds for network expansion. Add intense competition to it unleashed by Reliance Jio with its free voice and data services bloodying the sector further as the incumbents’ net profits and revenue fall. The industry leaders (Airtel, Vodafone and Idea) and other small operators like Telenor, Aircel, RCom and TTSL are now demanding fiscal intervention from the Government through a lower licence fee (5%), SUC (1%) and a USO levy (3%). For a deferred payment for spectrum acquisition, the operators want an increase in the moratorium period to five years from the current two years and instalment payments in 15-20 years instead of in 10 years at present or till the validity of the licence period which the Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) is currently looking into. In an exclusive interview with Bureaucracy Today after the IMG was set up, Sinha says he hopes the telecom sector will stabilise in six months.

6 mins

Privatization Is The Way Forward For AI

According to recent Government data, nearly 17 per cent of the total routes operated by Air India are lossmaking. What led the national carrier to become a perennially loss-making airline. A Bureaucracy Todayanalysis.

5 mins

When Russian Deputy PM Invites An India-Origin UK Lawyer To Economic Forum Meet

In the recently held St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) meeting in Russia, the global fraternity saw India’s rising power through strategic linkages with various nations. India was the “Guest Country” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi the “Guest of Honour” this year. So it was a moment of honour and pride for Sarosh Zaiwalla, an India-born British lawyer and founder of a UK-based legal firm, Zaiwalla & Co, when he got an invite from the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Sergei Prikhodko, to attend the prestigious conclave.

5 mins

'Enormous Business Opportunities in Govt Sector'

The Japanese-origin Hitachi Data Systems has been involved with several e-governance initiatives in India. In an interaction with Bureaucracy Today, Srinivas Rao, Sales Director, Government Sector, Hitachi Data Systems (India), talks about how the company is helping India transform into a digital nation.

4 mins

Treading The 'Slippery Path'

Political parties promise a lot of goodies in their poll manifestos. After coming to power many of these promises remain unfulfilled for which they look for excuses. Farm loan waiver is also a poll gimmick for many parties and promising it even in non-poll times giving in to the pressure of the powerful agrarian lobby is now a trend. Economic experts say it is a promise that should not be made and if made not to be honoured in the best interests of the country. But populism does not pay heed to economic rationalism. The result is divergence from fiscal discipline. Both the path and the outcome are slippery. A Bureaucracy Today analysis.

7 mins

If Govt Policy Measures Are Correct, Indian Farmers Can Become Lenders

There are no two opinions that since Independence, Indian farmers have been trapped in debt due to the wrong Government policies and natural calamities. An analysis.

4 mins

Why Disinvesting The 'Maharajah'?

On June 28, 2017, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its in-principle approval for considering the strategic disinvestment of Air India and five of its subsidiaries. This announcement gave birth to a question as to how a strategic sale of AI shares or their sale through stock market will be carried out.

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Bringing Growth, Ingenuity, Experience For Doubling Farmer's Income

Year 2014 onwards, India achieved an all time record production of foodgrains (more than five times since Independence) and is now a food-secure nation. In terms of total production in the world, India is first in total pulses and second in wheat, rice, sugarcane, tea, cotton (lint), vegetables and fruit. However, per hectare yields in India are far behind those in many other countries. In the case of rice and wheat, China’s average yield is nearly double and 1.6 times more respectively. In the USA, the fruit yield is even more than double than that of India. Further, there are wide yield variations amongst the Indian States and within a State. The foodgrain productivity of Punjab in 2013-14 was more than two times the all India average yield and 3.7 times more than that of Maharashtra. Therefore, the farmer’s income per hectare of cropped area at present is quite less.

4 mins

India's Online Education Industry Will Be $1.96 Bn by 2021: Report

The online education industry in India will grow at a healthy rate of 8X to become a USD 1.96-billion industry by 2021, reveals a joint report of Google and KPMG. The study, which captured the growing influence of the Internet on the education industry in India, is based on a comprehensive market research conducted by KPMG, along with primary research combined with insights from Google search. The report finds that the paid user base will grow 6X from 1.6 million users in 2016 to 9.6 million users in 2021.

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About Bureaucracy Today (BT) Magazine :
Bureaucracy Today (BT) is proud to be a leader in governance readership and is a ‘window for the corporate world’ as to what is happening in the government. The BT, an authoritative magazine has a circulation of 1.25 lakh and a readership of 6 lakh. BT readers are influential, affluent and politically powerful.

By virtue of its unrivalled capability in delivering influential readers comprehensively and reaching out to over 6.0 lakh affluent readers – from policy makers to entrepreneurs to top bureaucrats, PSU technocrats, to FIIs, diplomats, economists, CEOs, to small businessmen, stock investors and more, the Bureaucracy Today is one of India’s most comprehensive and influential consumer platform. Notably, the Bureaucracy Today readers are responsible for more than 70% of the India’s GDP. Bureaucracy Today publishes highly valuable content in a unique format so that its reader may utilize and benefit from the distinctive and useful information related to India INC and the government.

Profiles and interviews of individual top corporate leaders, bureaucrats and PSU technocrats are presented in a manner that brings out and reveals the state of mind of the top industry leaders so that related stakeholder may benefit from such useful information published in Bureaucracy Today magazine.
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