Environment

Plodding along

A people

Publication Date: 
26/03/2010
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Sanitation, Health Care, Rural Health, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Education, UNDP, NGO, Frontline (Chennai), Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Budget
Energy

Political price

LONG before the fuel price increase was announced on June 4, its political dimensions had come up time and again in discussions among partners of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre. The debate was on even during the run-up to the Assembly elections in Karnataka, which were held in May. The discussions highlighted the global increase in the price of crude oil and the demand from oil companies for governmental measures to tide them over.

Publication Date: 
04/07/2008
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Energy Policy, Oil Exploration, Natural Gas Exploration, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

In the moneylender's grip

WHILE announcing the Rs.60,000-crore debt relief for farmers, it was clear that Finance Minister P.

Publication Date: 
28/03/2008
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Frontline
Tags:
Farmers, Finance, High Court, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad (D), Debt
Environment

Political project

Until the second week of September, when both the ruling Congress and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suddenly discovered that the affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the Supreme Court on the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project was controversial and hurt religious sentiments, the biggest political ripples created by

Publication Date: 
05/10/2007
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Sethusamudram Project, Supreme Court, Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI), Sri Lanka, India, Tamil Nadu, NASA