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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 due to severa

Global Review on Hunger & Malnutrition and Israel Technology Partnerships

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Lok Sabha TV - Global Review (Episode No. 42) Global Nutritional Challenge and India-Israel Relations Must watch with some key data and solutions to address the issues. Anchor: Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi with Mr. Vijay Sardana and Mr. Dan Alluf

'Farmers Day' should be changed to “Farmers’ Martyrs Day”

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So far more than 300,000 farmers committed suicide  due to financial hardships as per official records, now Government of India does not even publish this data (who knows it can be too scary)?  ' Farmers Day ' should be changed to  ' Farmers’ Martyrs Day ' By: Vijay Sardana The current political debate in India is who is friendlier to the farmers and which political system benefited the farmers most through policies. The fact is today, farmers in India are exploited by others due to outdated policies and rules which are depriving farmers of their legitimate rights in the money spend by consumers. Political system is not willing to clean the system because political funding comes from these policies which encourage extortion of the farmers. Please answer my questions: 1.    Why 50% of all APMC mandis should not be reserved for the farmers cooperatives and farmers associations, when they are producer of the crop? 2.    Why farmer markets are not allocate

Watch - Why GST Council changing Slabs?

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Watch - Poll Promises To Take A Toll?

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Click here: Poll Promises to Take A Toll? Click here: https://www.btvi.in/videos/poll-promises-to-take-a-toll-/30571

The Tale of Two Judgments - Analysis of the Judgment in Vijay Mallya Extradition Case & Rafale PIL Case

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The Tale of Two Judgments Analysis of the Judgments in  Vijay Mallya Extradition Case and Rafale PIL Case By: Vijay Sardana Twitter: @vijaysardana Disclaimer: Views are personal. You are free to share. Reading time: 6-8 minutes This was an interesting week for all. As citizen of India, I had an opportunity to read both the judgments in full. My views are based on my understanding of the commercial contracts in technical subjects and process to be followed in legal cases while undertaking investigations, evidence and interrogation. This analysis is done after a careful reading of both the judgments  given by respective courts i.e. Vijay Mallya extradition case the by the district court in UK and Rafale PIL case, Supreme Court of India. Please note this analysis is not to pass any value judgment on any of Hon'ble Judges but purely an analysis what I expect in a judgement as a citizen of India. Please keep in mind, the purpose of this article is pu