Ola is in its ninth year of operation in India. With more than one million vehicles, Ola is presently operating in 170 Indian cities that include Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad. Biplob Mondal, Operation Team Lead, Kolkata, spoke to BE’s Kuntala Sarkar. Q. What is the b...
Healthcare has been a focus area for the Indian government. The public healthcare system in India remains highly over-stretched and the private healthcare system is yet to achieve the desired level penetration. Mobile apps, dealing in the healthcare sector, have ushered in some welcome changes in th...
India is going through an agricultural crisis. Farmers’ incomes continue to remain low in 2019. On July 20, 2018, the rising farmer suicides led the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare to announce, “The government has set a target of doubling of farmers’ income by 2022. The government ...
Major players from the steel industry have approached the government to auction iron ore mining licences which are currently held by private miners. Licences for 334 mines, out of which 33 working iron ore mines with an annual production capacity of 55 million tonnes (MT), will expire in 2020 and ma...
After Walmart’s $16 billion acquisition of Flipkart and Amazon’s $5 billion gain from India, the Narendra Modi government has announced changes in its policy for the e-commerce sector.The government has been controlling the ‘deep discount’ offered by various e-commerce players. Now it is att...
‘Abortani’ is a Bengali word which signifies something that arrives cyclically. Kolkata Society for Cultural Heritage (KSCH), a Non-Govern-mental Organisation (NGO), has chosen ‘Abortani’ as the name for their project that deals with waste-recycling and management.Last year, KSCH started thi...
The Indian Railways and the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has finalised the Japanese E5 Shinkansen technology for the implementation of 10 bullet train corridors with the total length of about 6,000 kilometres across the country. Out of these bullet train routes, six routes h...
Few hours after Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of India for his second term, US President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration will withdraw the designation of Generalised System of Preference (GSP) from India. GSP is the largest and oldest US trade preference programme allo...
India is projected to have the largest young workforce in the world by 2025 but is failing to cash in on this rich demographic dividend. According to a draft report from National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), India presently has its highest unemployment rate in the last 45 years.The manufacturi...
India is the second largest footwear manufacturer in the world after China. According to the statistics portal Statista, revenue in the footwear market in India is expected to be around $ 7,525 million by 2019. The same portal claims that it will grow in a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.6%...
