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IPCL Disinvestment By Prabir Purkayastha

The current disinvestment proposal of the Union Government is a change from the earlier Nehruvian vision of self-reliance to the more limited one of Reliance. Only this explains the Government’s...

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VSNL Disinvestment: Scam in the Making By Prabir Purkayastha

THE BALCO disinvestment fiasco – handing over a highly profitable strategic industry to Sterlite, deeply implicated in Harshad Mehta’s stock market scam – has taught nothing to the Vajpayee government....

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Trading In Water By Amit Sen Gupta

VIRTUALLY since the dawn of human civilization, the total amount of fresh water available for human consumption and use has practically remained constant. It is just half a per cent of the total water...

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Corporate Takeover of Water Resources By Amit Sen Gupta

SINCE antiquity it has been assumed that water is a common resource that canand should be shared according to the needs of people. This assumption isbeing challenged across the world, as water becomes...

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Privatisation Of Municipal Water Supply By Raghu

IT is an irony, indeed a tragedy, that on World Water Day (March 23, 2004), one should be writing this article about efforts being made at the level of both the centre and many states in India to...

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BHEL Disinvestments-An Attack On The Power Sector By Prabir Purkayastha

THE media has cast the Left’s opposition to the proposed disinvestments of 10 per cent of BHEL as one more instance of its inability to change its ideology with modern times. Efforts also are made to...

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BHEL Disinvestments And New Capitalism By Prabir Purkayastha

WE have earlier focussed on how we need to make BHEL a global player in power equipment manufacturing. This is doubly important, as the major power market in the world today is China and India,...

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New Metro Airports: private profit, public chaos

29/03/08 D. Raghunandan Everything in infrastructure or services in India these days has to be “world class”. And according to liberalizers in government and outside, especially in the media, this...

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HAL disinvestment: thin end of the wedge

D. Raghunandan September 29, 2011 In a move with far reaching consequences, the Defence Acquisition Council of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) last week gave in-principle approval to divestment of 10...

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The Other Half of the Coal Loot – Looting through the Power Market

Prabir Purkayastha 25th September 2012 There is a story doing the rounds that when a Minister went up to Manmohan Singh complaining about “primitive accumulation of capital” with respect to a huge real...

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Debroy Committee Report: Following the Neo-liberal Play Book

D. Raghunandan 19th June, 2015   The Report of the Debroy Committee for restructuring of Indian Railways has predictably recommended unbundling of IR and its privatization in all but name. The Report,...

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