The recent outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Bihar leading to a rising death toll of children points to the dilapidated public healthcare system in the country. According to the latest data available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, about 79.5% of the 1,719 villages of ...
The Indian eco-nomy has been facing problems like weak agriculture, low job creation, slowdown in manu-facturing and mining, and low private in-vestments. Even private consumption, which had been one of the main drivers of growth of the Indian economy for quite some years, may gradually lose steam i...
An important feature of the very high rate of growth of higher education in India, particularly since the beginning of the 1990s, is an alarming growth of the private higher education sector. The size of the private education sector is about twice that of the public sector in terms of the number of ...
Indian economy is to a large extent an agrarian economy. Agriculture’s contribution to the GDP of India has been falling from the 1950s. Price stability of the economy depends much on the performance of agriculture. In this article the role of inputs used in agriculture and its performance is disc...
There have been a number of researches on land size and productivity in the Indian agriculture sector. The point of debate is whether the scale of land has any significant influence on agricultural productivity. Adam Smith had envisaged the concept of economies of scale in the 18th century. The theo...
A lot of researches are going on regarding global warming and climate change in India. The studies vary widely. Sometimes it becomes difficult to draw conclusion from that. At present, it seems that the discussions on global warming are losing steam. But studies on climate change are gaining strengt...
It is known that increased mechanisation, use of artificial intelligence, the fourth industrial revolution, etc. are some of the buzz words in business media, business meetings and corporate boardrooms. But the necessity of the human element in production units is the key to any successful business....
West Bengal has the potential to grow as a world class leather industry. To achieve this, the first requirement is a proper mind-set, said B D Bhaiya, Chairman, C&E Limited. He also said that Bengal had been a low grade production centre of leather. Ordinary industrial gloves and ordinary leathe...
The Indian tea industry is growing as its production level is rising. In spite of that, the industry is passing through a crisis. Arun Kumar Ray, IPS, Deputy Chairman, Tea Board of India, told BE that the main problem is the demand for tea not growing commensurately with the level of production. The...
After the amalgamation of two erstwhile public sector banks (PSBs), Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank into Bank of Baroda (BoB), the BoB is now the second largest PSB of the country. It now has 9,500 branches and 85,000 employees with a business mix of more than Rs. 15 lakh crore. It is reported that the Bo...
