While fixing vaccine supplies, the government also needs to take care of these three things it has ignored so far The government and the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) finally seem to have woken up to the...
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Prosenjit Datta
What Ails India’s Vaccination Programme?
It is clear that not enough planning was done for the vaccination programe The lack of planning and sheer casualness with which India’s Covid vaccination programme was rolled out is becoming increasingly apparent every...
Covid: Tackling the New Wave
The vaccination programme needs to be speeded up. Here are some suggestions As a fresh wave of COVID cases engulfs the nation, the government needs to urgently rethink its options and move faster than it has so far...
The Prosaicview Podcast on SEIS
Prosenjit Datta, Editor of Prosaicview discuss the uncertainties caused by the delay in renewing the Service Exports from India Scheme (SEIS) and the impact on Indian exports because of that with Mahesh Jaising, Partner...
What the Finance Minister did not say
It is often what is not in the Budget speech that gives a better insight into the government’s thinking. A quick look at some of them As in every Budget these days, it is not what is said in the Budget speech but what...
Three Pieces of Advice for the Government
The Finance Minister would do well to keep these basic principles in mind It is the job of opinion writers to give advice to the government. It is the prerogative of the government to ignore them. Before any budget...
The Bad Bank is a Bad Idea
Setting up something like this ignores the basic issues that caused the bad loans in the first place From time to time, the idea of the Bad Bank, which will house all the bad loans of public sector banks and deal with...
How to Understand the Budget
Five things to keep in mind to separate the noise from the substance For business editors, corporate titans and economists, the great Budget circus is an annual national event second only to, perhaps, IPL. The build up...
The Pre Budget Podcast 5 – Direct Tax Questions
In this episode, Himanshu Sinha, who leads the tax practice at Trilegal gives his views on what is possible on the direct tax front, why he remains bullish about tax collections, and also why the Covid cess is the...
Too many shortcuts
The DCGI needs to realise that unlike a vaccine will eventually be given to the entire population and that is why it is particularly important to be careful about approving it. The Coronavirus pandemic has tested the...
