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Accelerating Sustainable Development Towards 2030
Taken together, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – contained in UN Resolution 70/1 involving the 194 member States and civil society in its deliberation – seek an encouraging level of development of humanity’s social and environmental existence. They establish a framework through the year 2030 that can assist the nations and communities of the world in plotting what could amount to transformative, prosperous, and sustainable achievements. How can this potential development unfold and be long-lasting? What approaches should we catalyse so that sustainable projects result in and generate the human development benefits the world’s local publics want and need?
4 min |
March 01-31 2017
Bureaucracy Today
The Reshaping Of Urban India
India is moving away from villages and is set to soon become more urban. To meet this demographic transition, experts say that we need to build 22 new Bengalurus besides recasting the landscape of the present 4,041 cities for a better living. The past is not encouraging. But can we make the future perfect?
5 min |
February 01 2017
Bureaucracy Today
Chugging Towards Transforming The Indian Railways Landscape
To realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of the Railways being a backbone and lifeline for India, the Railways under the pragmatic leadership of Minister Suresh Prabhu has embarked on an ambitious mission to redevelop over 400 railway stations which will have amenities on a par with those at modern airports. Bureaucracy Today brings to its readers and the stakeholders an indepth report of the project which will bring a qualitative difference in the lives of Indian citizens.
5 min |
February 01 2017
Bureaucracy Today
Budget 2016: Good For Rural India But Heavy On Salary Earners
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 29 unveiled a largely pro-poor Budget for 2016-17 increasing social spending and farm credit in a bid to revive the rural economy without overspending. His proposals courted both bouquets and brickbats. While the Minister shunned populism by balancing the key priorities of investment, growth and jobs, he left the salary earners high and dry by making no changes in the personal or corporate income-tax slabs.
10 min |
March 1 2016
Bureaucracy Today
JNU Fiasco: Leave The Kids Alone
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, has made a great contribution to the cause of learning in India. But sadly the students of this premier university are now being discussed for their intellectual daring which extended no further than a pledge to dismember their own motherland and a clever application of their assiduously acquired knowledge of “subaltern studies and dialectical materialism” to fox and hoodwink the plain, blunt policeman.
4 min |
March 16 2016
Bureaucracy Today
Empowering Indian Muslims The way forward
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for empowering Indian Muslims is indeed welcome. He said this while addressing party cadres at Kozhikode, Kerala, recently. The underlying objective behind this call appears to be to rally all shades of public opinion in the country to enable the Muslims to come out of their isolation to enjoy the fruits of all-round development like other Indian communities and not be left behind. It is also a clarion call to the Indian Muslims to step out and play their due role as equal partners in the progress and development of their country.
6 min |
November 01 2016
Bureaucracy Today
Nariman Point
In Indian Financial Architecture.
4 min |
November 01 2016
Bureaucracy Today
No Telecom Ombudsman In India, Case In Bombay High Court
Though the Government has plans to make India a fully digital country, it has not so far set up an independent authority to redress individual telecom complaints. The office of the TRAI is flooded with complaints of wrong billing, an indifferent or poor quality telecom service, and the non-provision of contracted services. The consumer is not motivated to take legal recourse due to time and cost constraints.
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