The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 06, 2004

FARM CREDIT
Bank reform and the rural sector
Internal financial liberalisation has had adverse effects upon the availability of credit for farmers, adding to the various economic sources of agrarian distress. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh< /B> consider the main elements of banking reform over the past decade and the implications for agricultural credit in particular. More

EDITORIAL
For safe food
FOOD SAFETY AND quality standards have been crucial in international food trade; but across the world, and especially in developed economies, the rules are becoming stricter by the day. Recent episodes of food contamination have raised the level ... More

RADIO/TV
CAS: The fading picture
The script is all muddled for the Conditional Access System. Instead of rushing to implement an ill-conceived system, the Government could have waited for the enactment of the Convergence Bill, which envisages a super-regulator that could have resolv ed disputes among different sections of the television industry. Having acted in haste, the Government is repenting at leisure, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. More

EDUCATION
Early Childhood Care and Education — First steps on the development path
The sooner the Centre and States realise the importance of universal elementary education, the faster can a new development model be created for India, based on the blend of technical skill, superior knowledge and a population of literate Indians. More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Sleep after retiring
AEONS ago, it was thought that those tactically well placed to receive bribes and did so would lose their daily dose of "gentle sleep from Heaven that slid into the soul". We do not know whether those who believed in ... More

LETTERS

No safety net

Secularism

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CAS: The fading picture

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FCI scheme may push up wheat price

Bank reform and the rural sector

Looking back
Dec. 28-Jan. 3
Reflections on scoring a century

The bittersweet saga of sugar

$100 billion: Understated, underexplained

Towards 2004: Nothing much to feel good about

Why interest rates should go up

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