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Dilution of the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act to attract private investment from the US and other countries will hurt the national interest and India’s emphasis on self-reliance in the field of nuclear development. An appeal to the Prime Minister not to yield to external pressure.
Letter to FM regarding a series of instances of regulatory forbearance extended by the government to the Vedanta Group. The writer says that these suggest an effort by the government to force the tax-payer to bear Vedanta’s debt burden to allow it to pursue its expansion programme.
The total premium paid under PMFBY by the Centre, the States and the farmers to insurance companies during the last 5 years was Rs 1,26,521 crore, whereas the insurance companies paid only Rs 87,320 crore to the farmers towards settlement of claims.
Open letter to Chief Ministers calling upon them to form a federal front of the States to persuade the Centre not to proliferate Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs), and instead transfer existing CSSs with the associated fund allocations to the States.
The latest decision of the government to amend the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) so as to permit the political parties to accept donations more readily from foreign sources will open the floodgates to foreign entities influencing the integrity of India’s electoral processes.
The current unprecedented coal crisis has caused widespread power cuts across the country, imposing far reaching economic costs. The Centre has been trying to put the blame entirely on the States, whereas it is the Central agencies which are squarely responsible for this crisis.
The then PM Nehru and the then FM Deshmukh, whose foresight and vision had led to the creation of a unique institution of the LIC as a social security provider for the poor, would never have imagined even remotely that their successors six decades later would wantonly dismantle it …
The 2021 coal crisis has severely impacted the power sector. During this crisis, while the 2 CPSEs, CIL and the Singareni Collieries Company, have ramped up coal production to tackle the shortages, the private companies which have been awarded captive coal blocks have taken advantage of the shortages to indulge in profiteering.
In recent times, there has been a distressing tendency on the part of the Centre to intrude unduly in areas that legitimately belong to the States, which has the effect of eroding the political identity of the State. These are disturbing trends that do not augur well for the well being of the nation.
The sweeping disinvestment policy announced by the NDA government in December 2021 has put most of the national wealth on a distress sale. The few oligarchs who fund the political parties are waiting with their war chests of funds ready to buy the Central Public Sector Enterprises for a song.
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