Vidarbha is green again, the rains have finally come, and at least at this point of time, seem to have come to stay their entire term, unlike the previous years when the it simply disappeared after giving us a false hopes of a normal monsoon. Here the article takes a look at the scene as it stands in the month of July with fairly good rains making the region appear like a paradise of green.

Have huge inflows of speculative capital in the
post-reform period affected the role of development institutions and
banks like the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, the
apex bank for institutional credit in rural India?

Campaign groups say turning the publicly-owned RBS into the Green Investment Bank would save money and also provide a model of sustainability for the rest of the banking sector.

The State Finance Commission, although a technical and quasijudicial constitutional entity like the Union Finance Commission, has to help local governments plan for economic development and deliver social justice and public services at the local level.