Livemint: Instead of setting up Indian institutes of management in backward areas, the government should set up institutes of rural management and agri-business whose primary objective would be to create rural entrepreneurs. Such institutes will not only
disseminate knowledge but also help in creating an interface between entrepreneurs, financial institutions and national-level scientific institutes.
Where politicians and [...]
Hindu: An estimated one lakh broadband enabled service centres are expected to come up in the country by March 2008 at a cost of Rs. 5,400 crore if Union Minister of Communication and Information Technology A. Raja is to be believed. One centre will come up for every six villages with all e-governance services. A [...]
Livemint: The shift to e-filing of statutory documents such as annual returns and balance sheets by companies with a minimum authorized capital of Rs1 crore is expected to see a fresh spurt in compliance in India, potentially bringing it on par with the standards prevalent in developed economies of Singapore and the UK.
E-filing was introduced [...]
Times of India: Vijaya S Mulay, a retired municipal nurse, filed a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act which sought to track the movement (or non-movement) of papers pertaining to her retirement dues. The papers had been pending with the administrative department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for more than a year.
The RTI [...]
Business Standard: Close on the heels of Pune and Baramati (a small city in Maharashtra), India’s infotech capital, Bangalore, too will provide seamless wireless connectivity as a part of its Rs 800 crore “Unwire Bangalore” project.
Even as Delhi has been planning to make the city “wireless”, the Karnataka government has reportedly given the go-ahead to [...]
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, writes in Business Standard about the state of the Indian government, and presents his case as to why the Indian Government is dozing.
If even three ordinary people (let alone ministers) don’t like something and shout their protest loudly enough, the idea is dropped. Nothing moves forward so as the world moves [...]
Economic Times: In a country of over a billion people, only 31.5 million people pay taxes, and this is after the number of taxpayers has grown by nearly 11 percent between March 2002 and March 2006. The Directorate of Income Tax (Systems) has said that a total of 54 million Permanent Account Numbers (PAN) had [...]
Livemint: The government launched a facility for e-filing of patent and trademark applications on 20 July 2007 to expedite the process of securing exclusive rights over a product or trading symbol. This facility has been made available on PatentOffice.nic.in
“With the launch of e-filing facilities, applicants can file their patent and trademark applications at their convenience [...]
Livemint: Almost 41% of the households that plan to buy a computer or a laptop are from rural areas. Only 16% are from the super metros, the eight largest cities in the country. And 39% of the households that plan to buy a laptop or desktop computer have people who earn less than Rs1 lakh [...]