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National Elections without Agenda -  Turning Point for Indian Politics and  Democracy By: Vijay Sardana Please look at the scale of democratic process and what we all are discussing today? National elections of India in 2019 are elections without agenda. Just think over and please indicate what are the major issues flagged by the political parties. Ruling party is not talking about achievements. They are also not sharing their development vision for India. Opposition  also failed in presenting alternate governance model and has no vision for India except highlighting the failure of ruling government. The only agenda all political parties have is how much tax-payers money they want to waste to bribe  voters in the name of free doles to come to power. Why these elections are turning point for Indian democracy? The only thing which has become crucial in these General Election is that elections are polarised between two camps i.e right wing and left wing. T

Rs. 4.5 Lakhs Crore (USD 63 Billion) Consumption Boost for FMCG and Capital Goods, GST collection will also get a boost By: Vijay Sardana The interim budget is dominated by provisions for the rural farm sector and the working-class population, it means a major boost to a consumption economy. If everything goes as per plan, Indian economy will get additional Rs. 310 crores cashflow every day due to budget provisions only in consumer goods, agri-inputs and services industries. This budget will support consumption sector by increasing the disposable income in the hands of the middle and lower middle class because of the income support schemes, interest subvention and tax exemptions and this should domestic economic output, capacity utilization of factories and employment generation. The increased cash in the system because of the government income augmenting measures could have an inflationary impact which may boost farmers income which could, however, be restricted

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

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