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News: Electric vehicle (EV) industry may fall well short of its target of setting up a sufficient number of public charging stations in India this year.  Contents1 What is the current status of charging infrastructure in India? 2 What have been recent initiatives in this regard? 3 Why has been this huge shortfall? 4 What is the way… Continue reading High costs, low use may derail the development of EV charging Infra

News: Government is aiming to modify and re-introduce the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill.  Government is planning to modify and re-introduce the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill. The bill puts in place a resolution mechanism to deal with the insolvency of firms in the financial sector.  The bill was introduced earlier in 2016 but was… Continue reading On Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill : Orderly failure options will help Indian financial firms flourish 

News: While putting vaccination for adolescents in “mission mode”, the Prime minister stressed the need to ensure adequate health infrastructure at the district level. Read more: How to fix India’s creaking health infrastructure? What steps should be adopted to improve health infrastructure amid Omicron? – Government should work towards Upgrading health infrastructure, testing capacity, availability… Continue reading Health Infrastructure: PM bats for health infra at district level

News: 2021 saw the world joining hands to mitigate climate risks. 2022 will need a doubling down of efforts to achieve the renewable energy targets that were recently reset by India. Must Read: A must-surge year for climate goals What is the way forward? Govt needs to take the following key measures in 2022 to… Continue reading It’s the year to turbocharge our renewable-energy drive

News:  The Model Agriculture Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2017, or model APLM act is a better option compared to the central farm law.  It is also more comprehensive than the recently repealed farm laws. A model APLM act for doing away with the APMC-controlled regime was drafted for states in 2017… Continue reading Reformist laws for trading in farm output are best enacted by states

News:  Non-profit Organisations are subjected to strict norms in India. How strict regulations for NGOs is affecting their survivability? In 2015, The Centre amended the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, to require the renewal of non-profit funding permits every five years. This led to delicensing of many NGO’s. For instance, in 2015 and 2017, over 15,000… Continue reading Liberalize the funding of non-profit ventures

News: In the Air India case, one of the prominent politicians(MP) is demanding a court-monitored or CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) inquiry. He had petitioned the Delhi high court alleging that Air India’s disinvestment process was “arbitrary, unconstitutional, unfair, discriminatory and, therefore, shouldn’t be allowed to go through. The government regularly faces multiple headwinds in… Continue reading Why Divestment is an Elusive Target

News: Taiwanese firms like Foxconn, Wistron ,Pegatron and Quanta Computer have come to dominate global electronics manufacturing Industry and have had a very strong presence in China till now.  But, recently, they have started to shift their base to India as China is facing labour shortages and to cut their overreliance on China.  However, they… Continue reading Taiwanese manufacturers face unfamiliar conditions in India