The official machinery in our nation carries a lot of inertia that makes officials adhere to precedents. It is in fact a perfect risk transfer strategy where the burden of failure can easily be passed on to those setting the precedent. This makes innovations hard to come by, and this has also been the case […]
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XV Finance Commission Recommendations
Do you know what is the basis of disaster financing in India? Yes, it is based on the Finance Commission (FC) recommendations. The FC recommendations decide both, the amount to be made available to the states, and the Union, and the ground rules for spending this amount. The FC is constituted at five-year interval as […]
GR to NOK of Covid casualties
The news report Most news items are intended to inform, and update the masses on various issues relevant to them so that they initiate action, and get benefitted. This article is therefore not to question either judiciousness, or intention of the news report that is presently viral on the social media, and pertains to Covid. […]