Control, competition & cooperation: Ministry of cooperation

One will have to wait for its blueprint to see how it plans to take the country forward. However, experience of co-operatives in India is a mixed bag, more of failures and only few successes. It was an indirect admission of the failure of socialist state with all its controls on the economy. July is…

Control, competition & cooperation: Ministry of cooperation

One will have to wait for its blueprint to see how it plans to take the country forward. However, experience of co-operatives in India is a mixed bag, more of failures and only few successes. It was an indirect admission of the failure of socialist state with all its controls on the economy. July is…

From Plate to Plough: India, A land of milk and money

By Ashok Gulati & Ayushi Khurana AMUL has just raised its milk prices for consumers by Rs 2/litre, and this has become national news. This increase is about 4% of existing prices, and well below the increase in consumer price index (CPI), which has already crossed the tolerance limit of RBI at 6%. The dairy farmers…

From Plate to Plough: India, A land of milk and money

By Ashok Gulati & Ayushi Khurana AMUL has just raised its milk prices for consumers by Rs 2/litre, and this has become national news. This increase is about 4% of existing prices, and well below the increase in consumer price index (CPI), which has already crossed the tolerance limit of RBI at 6%. The dairy farmers…