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Sanjeev Ahluwalia
About the AuthorSanjeev Ahluwalia
The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert
    For citizens, at the receiving end of the pipe, what matters most is the efficiency and effectiveness of the last-mile expenditure management by the state governments. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | A bottom-up view of the annual Budget

    Despite the hoopla around the Union government's Budget, for citizens, allocations in their state budgets matter more

    14 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

    National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God's world: Growth' has a high price

    It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back...

    10 Feb 2021 7:11 AM IST

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    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | C-virus funk? Relax, and respect the kids

    There are so many moving parts, any of which could pitch the game against the parent or the child

    10 Jan 2021 7:27 AM IST

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    2021: A magical bridge across troubled waters

    The enhanced vaccine cover will, we hope, diminish social and economic disruptions

    31 Dec 2020 4:43 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Keeping Big Biz out of banks not a good ideaOpinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Keeping Big Biz out of banks not a good idea

    Increasing the number of well- capitalised private banks will induce competition and dilute the concentration of...

    4 Dec 2020 7:30 AM IST

    Sanitation employee adjust the tyres for distance maintenance before starting Swab tests due to COVID0-19 at Bishop Grassi school in Vijayawada. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings

    The ongoing pandemic’s most telling debris — other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia — are the ubiquitous...

    29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM IST

    A vegetable vendor pushes his bicycle loaded with vegetables on an empty street during a complete lockdown amid growing concerns of coronavirus in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 24, 2020. Authorities have gradually started to shutdown much of the country to contain the outbreak. (AP)Opinion
    Lockdowns are overkill, and won’t tame the coronavirus

    The silence of economic graveyards can be very expensive for struggling economies like ours

    24 March 2020 7:43 PM IST

    A woman wearing a facemask to protect against the coronavirus COVID-19 shops for groceries in a market in New Delhi on March 14, 2020. (AFP)Opinion
    The C-virus impact on the lives of urban Indians

    Globalisation benefited urban India the most, so it is urban India that is now affected the most

    16 March 2020 11:45 AM IST

    PM Modi and US President Donald Trump.Opinion
    Treating Trump better may be good for India; but let’s not forget...

    Friends in high places are useful diplomatic assets.

    22 Feb 2020 5:23 AM IST

    Arvind KejriwalOpinion
    Seismic changes haunt BJP after Delhi shock

    To be sure the city of Delhi — a cossetted child of emperors starting with the Great Mughals — is spoilt silly.

    15 Feb 2020 1:19 AM IST

    Nirmala SitharamanOpinion
    New thinking is needed, band-aids won’t suffice

    The government has been firefighting since FY 2019 using mostly Band-Aids of the cheapest kinds.

    29 Jan 2020 2:14 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Opinion
    Modi legacy: What the future holds for India

    Christianity has not been a threat. It was dignified 210 years ago, when it took up arms against the slave trade, out of...

    7 Jan 2020 12:43 AM IST

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