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If the rains fail, so does our crops. How does one move beyond the over dependence on rains as many other countries have done? Professor M.S. Swaminathan, renowned geneticist and father of the Indian Green Revolution, shares his thoughts.
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Ranjeev C. Dubey, Managing Partner, N South, Advocates, outlines what must be done to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor over the next 25 years.
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Despite India's honourable commitments to emission control under the COP21 talks at Paris, coal will continue to remain its largest source of energy to power its economic growth over the next 25 years.
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Reetika Khera, Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Dept, IIT-Delhi, says with India gaining strength, both economically and geo-politically, we can now achieve 100% social security.
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R.S. Sodhi, MD of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, suggests the way forward as India continues to be on the lookout for the next breakthrough in agricultural produce and productivity.
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India might still be primarily Pakistan-and-China focused, but tomorrow's enemy may not necessarily be the proximate enemy. Admiral Arun Prakash, former Chief of Naval Staff and former Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, outlines how to prepare for the new adversary.
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Sanjeev Duggal, CEO & Director, Centum Learning, a skilling company with presence in 21 countries, writes on how to change India's skills landscape.
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Prakash Singh, former DGP of UP and BSF, who leads a movement for police reforms, explains how to create a professional, well-trained, equipped, and motivated police force.
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Vinod Rai, former CAG of India and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, in the National University of Singapore, explains how the revamp can make India future-ready.
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Robyn Norton of Global Health; James Martin of Oxford; and Professor Vivekananda Jha of George Institute of Public Health, on improving healthcare facilities in the remotest areas of the country.
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Financial inclusion is not just about having a bank account for everyone
in the society. It is about creating an ecosystem that enables and
encourages people to use financial instruments in their everyday life.
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Without doubt, if this generation needs to make the world a better place to live for future generations, clean air has to be our biggest priority. Environmentalist and activist Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, exhorts, it's now or never.
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India should reinvigorate its pursuit of the democratisation of the
international order replacing the post-World War II order with one that
represents, more truly, the global realities of the times.
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The WHO representative to India, Dr. Henk Bekedam, suggests ways to marry national and state priorities to bring quality health care to every Indian citizen.
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Technology
entrepreneur and investor Jack Hidary, who was CEO of Dice.com and now
the Chairman of Samba Energy, suggests a template for a brand new Smart
City and says India should avoid making the mistakes of the West.
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Julio Ribeiro, one of India's most feted police officers, a former commissioner of Mumbai Police, and former director general of Punjab Police during the era of militancy in that state, looks at what needs to be done to make the police in India fit for the next 25 years.
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K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, looks at the way ahead for universal health insurance in India.
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Karin Wanngard, Mayor of Stockholm, deliberates on how to transform an old city into a Smart City? the Stockholm way.
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It would be a travesty if India's economic growth were to be a prisoner of an antiquated tax regime, multiple and over-lapping tax structures and corrupt compliance officials.
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Anil Sardana, CEO & MD, Tata Power (lead contractor for Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher and Akash Missile Launchers), and Rahul Chaudhry, CEO of the company's Strategic Engineering Division, write on why 'Make in India' matters for India's defence preparedness.
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While India has clearly made some progress on school education, the situation on multiple dimensions is alarming. Anurag Behar, CEO of Azim Premji Foundation looks at the possible solutions.
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A few years ago, Ashish Dhawan, Co-founder of Chrys Capital, one of India's biggest private equity funds, Pramath Raj Sinha, Founding Dean of ISB, Vineet Gupta, MD, Jamboree Education, and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and Vice Chairman of InfoEdge (Naukri.com), joined hands and pulled in many others to conceptualise and build Ashoka University, a private university focused on liberal arts education. They write about the importance of liberal arts to the development of the country.
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A huge number of Indian laws needs to be scrapped and new ones passed to help us progress. The man who has written extensively about it is Bibek Debroy, celebrated economist, head of the panel for restructuring Indian railways, and a member of Niti Aayog, the body that replaced the Planning Commission.
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Despite the best efforts by policy makers and state-owned banks, the last mile problem has been an insurmountable hurdle in the way of financial inclusion for the poor. Bindu Ananth, Chair - IFMR Trust & IFMR Holdings, busts some common fallacies about financial inclusion.
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It is recognised by everyone that without proper financial products for the have-nots, no real progress on financial inclusion can take place. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Founder, MD & CEO, Bandhan Bank, with his deep knowledge of microfinance in India, makes suggestions ....
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Yale Law School's associate professor David Singh Grewal (right), a specialist in IP law and biotechnology and Professor Amy Kapczynski explain how to make drugs-for-all a national priority.
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Dilip Mookherjee, Director of the Institute for Economic Development, and Professor of Economics at Boston University, who specialises in incentives and institutions, suggeststhe path to a more efficient and transparent agri supply chain.
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Yashwant Sinha, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, M.S. Swaminathan, Bibek Debroy, Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Bindu Ananth, K. Srinath Reddy, Henk Bekedam and many more...
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Manish Sabharwal, co-founder and Chairman, Teamlease Services - a temporary workforce and skilling company - and a member of India's Central Advisory Board of Education explains why skilling needs to be the future of education in India.
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Former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, prescribes what the governments of the future should aim for, in terms of deficit, expenditure and raising of resources.
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Pravir Pandey, Member, Finance, Inland Waterways Authority of India, explains why inland waterways-based movement of people and goods, particularly National Waterway- 1 between Allahabad and Haldia on Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hoogly River System, is of truly national significance.
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D. Shivakumar, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India, writes about how to make commercial farming work in India.
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Hero MotoCorp Chairman, Managing Director & CEO, Pawan Munjal, explains how India can become a globally competitive manufacturing nation capable of designing and developing products that are acknowledged as the best in the world.
