Insight - Page 15

KP Agrawal’s magnum opus, British Takeover of India, documents the major treaties that were instrumental in India’s colonisation — exposing, in the...

Though growth targets were seldom met in the agriculture and allied sectors through the five-year plans, production and crop yield increased in...

Community participation and technology are the two basic building blocks that can go a long way in transforming the lives of people at the grassroots...

While the 12 five-year plans lent India a decent industrial base, systematic educational pattern and self-sufficiency in terms of food grains, the...

As karmyogis, the civil servants have been relentlessly synthesising the inputs provided by various sectors to put everything in a wider perspective....

The 12th five-year plan, which would ultimately be intercepted by the formation of NITI Ayog, started with a vision of ‘faster, sustainable and more...

In the second part of the extract from his Civil Services Day address, Sanjeev Chopra highlights that British India’s frontier regulations in...

Amid a global economic downturn, the 11th plan managed to register a ‘commendable’ growth rate of eight per cent but the slowing down of poverty...

Despite the ICOR remaining much above the envisaged target and agriculture and allied sectors performing below the mark, the tenth five-year plan...

In this extract from his Civil Services Day address, Sanjeev Chopra elucidates the contribution of IFAS officers Major Ralengnao Khathing and Lt...

Against the backdrop of the Asian financial crisis and a slump in agriculture, manufacturing and public investment, the ninth plan not just faltered...

Denial of British citizenship to Shamima Begum on now-immaterial ground of ISIS linkage by leaders of Asian heritage reflects an ironical notion of...