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Top 5 Priority Actions for Sustainable Food Security of India By: Vijay Sardana Bio-economy and Agribusiness Specialist Addressing Food and nutrition security by minimizing food wastage and food production are important precondition to be addressed by the union budget to control food inflation, current account deficit and to promote rural economy. It is also true that agriculture subject; union government cannot do any major interventions except by giving some incentive to private sector including farmers. In overall national interest, Union Government should address the following issues on PRIORITY:  The important expectations from the Union budget are: 1.    Promote water and power saving Irrigation technologies: In order to make agriculture predictable and to ensure regular income for farmers and assured supplied for consumers, irrigation is vital. For next two years make all water conservation technologies like drip, sprinkler, shade nets, solar pu

10 Management Lessons from Delhi Elections Delhi elections will provide many lessons to many people and organizations. In order to understand the outcome of the elections, I was visiting few places to understand the mood of people at least cost and with less efforts.  It was clear that AAP will get majority but no one was sure what will be margin.   My Survey Locations: To understand the mood of people I was frequently visiting and interacting with people at railways stations, bus stands, airport tax stand, subji mandies, footpath markets, metro railway stations and also traveled in metro train and DTC buses.  I also interacted with people during conferences in Five start hotels and inside air-crafts and airports, TV studios and friends in media houses. You must be think why I visited this. The logic is very simple. These are the places where diversified people from various walks of people come and go. The best part is people at these places come from various

Common Man's Proposals for Union Budget - Will government Listen My heartiest respect and tribute to RK Laxman , who was representing us all the time, without fear, favour and charge,  but was never nominated to Rajya Sabha or elected to Lok Sabha or any Assembly. Still he was better representative of Common man than any elected representative. Why? Can we and our elected representatives learn from his contribution ? Think about it. The most important assets of India, produced in India, for India are Citizens of Indian. The biggest question is, 'Do we have policies and systems to take care of them or not?' In last 68 years, we have seen lot of policy initiatives and activities to address the biggest question in any democracy - ' Ensure welfare of people '. There can be various versions what we have done and what we have not done in last 68 years. I will prefer not to spend time on last 68 years because I cannot change anything which is part of