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Failed PPP's, and finally, a good model

5 August 2018 - 8:17am — murali772

With government-owned, and thereby incapacitated, "public utilities" (BESCOM, BMTC, BWSSB, etc in Bengaluru) unable to meet the burgeoning and varied demands of the fast-growing urban centres, the way out for managing them very clearly points to PPP's.

GCPP assignment - 1

8 June 2018 - 5:11pm — murali772

Question 1

Humaradesh, a state in India, has been suffering from political violence (by state as well as non-state actors) for over 50 years.

Socialism - the cause of the Greek economic melt-down?

4 July 2015 - 1:57pm — murali772

The following write-up (with emphasis added by me by highlighting where I felt it appropriate) on the subject reached me through a whatsapp group, yesterday, along-with a question as to whether I was the author, knowing me to be talking a similar language all along:

Why would anybody want to invest in Karnataka, Mr CM?

31 December 2014 - 10:34am — murali772

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will soon go on a business tour to the United States (US) to showcase Karnataka as a preferred destination for investment soon, IT/ BT Minister S R Patil said on Wednesday.

Crony Statism?

19 April 2014 - 12:32pm — murali772

Yesterday, talking about the previous evening's IPL match, a friend said that he was happy that Mumbai Indians had lost, largely because he can't stand Nita Ambani.

The Genetically Modified (GM) crop debate

23 December 2013 - 7:24pm — murali772

In the debate over whether India should go for transgenic or genetically modified (GM) crops or not, there is a viewpoint that supports its ability to enhance production and increase food security, while against the motion there's a word of caution on the grounds that it will encourage monoculture and end diversity of traditional crops.

Towards a level playing field regime?

12 December 2013 - 3:48pm — murali772

India’s competition watchdog has fined Coal India Ltd (CIL) and three of its subsidiaries a combined Rs.1,773 crore for misusing their position as monopoly suppliers of coal to fix prices and supply poor-quality coal, and do so on conditions that favoured them over the buyers. The specific charges against Coal India, the first state-run company to be fined by the Comp

ATM Clusters instead of Individual ATMs to reduce ATM crimes

24 November 2013 - 4:19pm — Vasanth

Offlate ATM thefts are increasing in Bangalore and the recent incident of the Corporation Bank manager being attacked in the heart of the city in the morning shows how poor is Bank's monitoring and security systems are. Bangalore Police cannot give security to every ATM with so many banks and so many ATMs across the city.

Grab the opportunity to offload Air-India

20 November 2013 - 6:35pm — murali772

Industry leader Ratan Tata today expressed interest in the possibility of privatisation of Air India, saying he would be very happy to look at it whenever it happened. "As an when it happens, we would be very happy to look at it," the Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group said when asked whether he would be interested if Air India was privatised.

Public assets or perpetual burdens?

20 November 2013 - 4:29pm — murali772

Babus and public sector executives may have to surrender phones and broadband connections from private operators such as Airtel and Vodafone and shift to the networks of state-owned MTNL and BSNL as part of the government's plan to improve the finances of the two PSUs.

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