Found 109 Articles for Governments & Policies

One of the flagship programmes of the Modi Government is Startup India, which aims to significantly improve the start-up ecosystem in the country with greater efficiencies. Prime Minister Modi firmly believes that start-ups can play a very important role in generating a large number of jobs in India, where unemployment is a problem for every government. In accordance with these objectives, Modi launched a 19 point action plan to further boost the start-up culture in January 2016. This action plan will provide tax sops, streamline funding, improve ease of doing business and enable innovation among others.A Tremendous MoveAccording to India's ... Read More

The term 'cybercrime' is actually non-existent in any law or legislation in India although the phenomena itself is widely recognized for what it is - any crime that is committed using a computer system. To deal with such crimes, the Indian Penal Code 1860 is good enough and other legislations are considered adequate as to date.Measures Have Been TakenConsidering India's reputation as the leading hub of offshore IT services, not much was done to improve the situation with respect to cyber crimes. However, the government of the day has taken e-governance quite seriously in order to reach out to the ... Read More

From the perspective of small businesses, GST has been a nightmare so far. Now, which kind of small businesses are suffering due to the impact of GST? I would say all kinds because GST has disrupted the entire supply chain of the SME sector. Take the case of certain categories of cosmetics manufacturers like shampoos, shaving creams, and body deodorants.Nightmare for Small FirmThese items were initially kept in the highest slab of 28% and were later brought down to the 18% slab which is still high for such everyday use items. Now, a big manufacturer won't have a problem adjusting ... Read More

The NGT (National Green Tribunal) recently banned the use of all forms of disposable plastic material, in Delhi and most of it is packaging material and disposable plastic cups used by street-side tea vendors. Prior to that in 2016, the union environment ministry announced new guidelines for manufacture and use of plastic carry bags by stipulating the minimum thickness of plastic carry bags to be 50 microns, which is an increase of 10 microns over what it was earlier.This increase in the thickness of plastic carry bags is expected to push up the cost of production by about 20 %, ... Read More

In India, a farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes. This is a very serious issue for the country where the farm sector, which employs around 265 million people or about 55% of the total workforce in the country. The sector has been in decline for quite some time now and the government of the day hasn't been able to change the situation even after four years in power although it keeps making noises about taking different steps to improve the situation. Around 285, 000 farmers have committed suicides in different parts of the country in the last 18 years, which ... Read More

No, thankfully that's not going to happen. On the contrary, farming in India will get redefined before long. However, it's true that governments have done very little to improve living conditions in rural India ever since independence. Almost 70% of our population still lives in villages and that itself indicates how economically backward we still are.Need to Generate New Options for LivelihoodIn any other middle-income economy, that percentage would just be the opposite, with 70% of the population living in urban and suburban areas, which indicates an industrial economy. To be honest, our farmlands are overpopulated and there is a ... Read More

Undoubtedly, the issue is huge and governments, to be very frank, have only been the mere spectators of the disaster, which not only leaves many homeless but takes away a number of lives every year, especially during monsoon. If not overhaul, the governments at least can do some radical changes to reduce the problems to a large extent.Devastating Flood In BiharBihar is the state where the flood turns out to be devastating. Bihar alone accounts for over half the flood-related loses of the entire country and the main cause of the flooding in this state is the northern tributaries of ... Read More

An ambassador is the highest-ranking representative of a country in another country with which it has diplomatic relations and where it has a mission. The ambassador is the head of this mission, popularly known as the embassy; countries that are members of the Commonwealth and were once part of the British empire, call such missions, high commissions while the mission head is called the high commissioner and not the ambassador.Multiple Missions (Ambassadors)An Indian mission, for instance, may not be restricted to just the capital city of another country if that country happens to be large and has other major cities ... Read More

For the common man who makes up the salaried middle class, Budget 2018 offers a flat deduction of Rs. 40, 000. Those earning salaries of Rs. 3 lakhs per annum are already exempted from paying income tax while those earning between Rs. 3 and Rs. 5 lakhs per annum have to pay just 5%. So, on the direct taxes front, the salaried middle classes, whose contribution to the IT pool have been the largest and the most significant over the years, has been spared any shock in this budget. On the flip side, higher MSP (Minimum Support Price) for farm ... Read More

In my opinion, it all depends on the desire and willingness of the government of the day to pursue such criminals and get them back. One can understand the difficulty in getting back gangster turned terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and other such criminals back into the country as they are under the special protection of the Pakistani state machinery. That’s not the case with scammers like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi along with Mehul Choksi. I’ll emphasize again that it all depends on the willingness and determination of the current government to pursue such criminals and bring them back into the ... Read More