Indian Labour Policy - Nani A Palkhivala
- ! Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool.
Investment in education is the need of the hour
Investing in education is to the 1990s what nationalization was to the 1940s and privatization was to the 1980s.
Freedom to be deepened by liberal education
Our concept of freedom will remain an impoverished one, until it is rounded and deepened by liberal education.
Julian Simon's book, 'The Ultimate Resource'
In a book published recently by the famous economist, Julian Simon, the human resource is rightly defined in the title of the book as “The Ultimate Resource”.
Privatise PSUs
we must privatize the public sector undertakings. Privatization means that the majority of shares should be allowed to go into public hands, while the government may only retain a minority interest.
Britishers privatising
British Airways was privatized, and the standard of service improved beyond recognition. The British government is toying with the idea of privatizing even Air Traffic Control.
Need for privatising
the quality of service rendered by the public sector undertakings is pathetic, if not hopeless.
Pathetic service of telephone by GoI
Our telephone service which still continues to be the monopoly of the Union government. the most inefficient in any important country of the world. Service tax has been imposed upon every telephone call since last July, 1994.
Law forbidding humane exit policy
India will find it impossible to compete with the rest of the world so long as the law forbids even a humane exit policy and prohibits closure of a unit without the government’s permission.
Reservation, taking the country backwards
The greatest Himalayan blunder of India in this decade has been to encourage casteism by making rigid reservations for employment under the state in its infinite variety and for admission to educational institutions, on the basis of caste.
VP Singh, using caste as a political weapon
Ever since Mr. V. P. Singh began to use casteism as a political weapon, India has been paying the highest price any country has ever paid for democracy. Reservations in different States have already resulted in the substandard replacing the standard and the reins of power passing from meritocracy to mediocrity.
Price of food articles risen 55% after reforms in 1991
Our inflation must be brought down from 9.9 per cent. The price of food articles has risen as much as 55 per cent since the economic reforms began in July 1991. Print
