UPA 2's Creative Consensus

Employers and entrepreneurs are worried more about India's lack of infrastructure than its archaic labour laws Arun Maira The key to labour reforms is collaboration, rather than confrontation. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint Also Read As you go ...

Member of the Planning Commission of India Arun Maira stressed on the need for citizens' participation in the process of urbanization. Maira, speaking at the inaugural session of the national workshop on urban sanitation in the city on Saturday, said the ...

Lack of trust in institutions is the root cause for slow progress vis--vis achievements of various objectives like improvement in GDP growth, growth in improvement of peoples health and education and other such objectives, member of the Planning ...

Economists blind faith in mathematics has dented their credibility. Some humility will serve the world better Arun Maira Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint Also Read Too many debates in the media about economic growth have deteriorated into babbling ...

By Arun Maira The Indian economy can, and must, again grow faster than 8%, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the CII. He said the global economic slump had crimped India's growth but the larger constraints are within the country. He emphasised the ...

ReserWater Innovation Foundation (RWIF) India's first water innovation platform was launched by Mr. Arun Maira, Member Planning Commission, Government of India, at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 11th April 2013.

-World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today made the following statement on the Doing Business report and Independent Panel Review: "The World Bank Group's work on business climate development, including the Doing Business report, is core to ...

SAIL's Narendra Kothari is most likely to become NMDC's new Chairman and Managing Director as a high-level committee today recommended his name as the first choice to head the nation's biggest iron ore miner. The panel, headed by Planning Commission ...

Growth in hospitality and leisure, promises an increasing opportunity for the beverages industry in India. As the industry expands and more tourists land on Indian shores, hotels will prosper and be better placed to invest in global brands.