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Why some Non-State Actors (NGOs) are keen to make India Food Insecure?

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Agriculture Policy Discussion Note Why some Non-state Actors (NGOs) are keen to make India Food Insecure? (Other developing countries may also be facing the similar situation) By: Vijay Sardana Do you know , the popular OTC medicine Asprine is 38 times more toxic than urea. Salt is 2.5 times more toxic than urea. Vitamin-D which promoted in fortified foods by FSSAI is more toxic than many pesticides, urea and many medicines. NGOs, Courts and policymakers responsible for the delay in adoption agriculture technologies by farmers must provide our plan for food security of India. India needs the addition of 20 million tons of food to meet the minimum nutrition requirement for a growing population. NGOs should Food Security Plan of India: I request NGOs to please submit the detailed food security plans to feed India’s poor and unfed population. If they do not submit their plans they should be asked to keep off from the vital food security matters. Fail...

How to retain market share & market capitalization?

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Corporate Governance in Corporate World  How to retain market share & market capitalization in a highly-competitive hyper-connected world? By: Vijay Sardana Everyday newspapers are flooded with corporate stories of mis-management and stock market crashing for some reason or the other. At the same time many companies are rock solid and their market capitalization is going up and sales is also going up.  The basic question is: Why some promoters and top managers are involved in manipulations and mismanagement of their own company and ultimately ruin their own goodwill with their own organisation?  Why this happens? As an independent director and member of various policy-making bodies both in private as well as public sector, author do get a chance to interact with many business leaders and investors on a daily basis and what I observed is that issues are most common but there is resistance in accepting the facts that things are going out of control...