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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
When growth numbers flatter power, hide job scarcity, and mute rising costs, bad data stops disciplining policy and democracy pays a hefty price, writes the famed economist professor.
Mumbai’s public bus transport, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), once considered a model for bus services in the country, is now in complete shambles. Yet this situation was foreseen and was publicly warned against more than seven years ago, when the authorities took the fatal decision to privatise BEST’s core operations.
Despite high-speed trains and higher safety spending, Indian Railways continue to battle chronic delays. Data and experts point to aging infrastructure, poor maintenance, and congestion.
The author critically traces the 25-year journey of the public sector firm Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and seeks to bring out how a real possibility and promise of indigenous development under the public sector was lost.
The Centre’s push for PSB consolidation and foreign investment prioritises bank profitability over financial inclusivity.
A broad-based coalition of social organisations and unions has called for an immediate halt to the ongoing privatisation of Mumbai’s public hospitals and health services and also demanded the filling of vacant posts and strengthening of public health facilities to ensure equitable, quality care for all residents of Mumbai.
‘From “Howdy Modi” to “Cannot Name Trump”: How Modi Has Taken a Hit from Trump’s Tariffs and Taunts’; ‘Indian Exports Under Siege: US Tariff Gamble’; and: ‘What Else Can They Do?’.
Profits take priority over the wellbeing of patients, turning the sector into a business for wealth accumulation by any means, even unlawful and unethical.
Labour migration is not about simple spatial mobility but the transfer of labour power for accumulation in advanced capitalist countries.
‘Mumbai’s Move to Privatise Five Government Hospitals Will Hit Slum Dwellers Hard’: The city’s municipal corporation is handing over the health facilities to private players soon after funding their expansion. Also: ‘Here’s Why Maharashtra Govt Decision to Move Dharavi Residents to Deonar Is a Problem’.
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