Agriculture
Challenge to farm sector
THE Seattle riots, the street shows at Genoa at G-8 meet, the tensions arising from the change in trade perspectives of Europe and the US -- the two major trading blocs -- are all pointers to the Doha WTO meet being not-so-smooth. The US got assurances f rom China, whose entry is almost certain, for its own trade protection. When a developed country, threatened with a cut in its market share, has taken pains to safeguard its market, should not India prepare well?

Editorial
More power to hydel
FOR SOME REASON hydel power has not got the kind of attention it deserves. Not only is it more sustainable compared to fossil fuel-based power plants, barely 20 per cent of its estimated potential at 85,000 MW has been tapped. The hydro-thermal mix of ge neration capacity, that ideally should be around 40:60, has shifted in favour of thermal generation, which accounts for over 70 per cent now. The hydel power sector has not taken off as it should despite the Centre formulating a policy in 1998 that provi ded various incentives. And, as mentioned at a recent conference on hydropower, the sector deserves more attention.

Management
Call a fad a fad
YOU can, perhaps, muster the courage, on occasion, to call a spade a spade. But not a fad a fad, particularly, if you are a management preacher. Your cash till will stop ringing should you confess. Of all the subjects diligently studied, nothing is more 'fad' ridden than the study of management.

Politics
Pakistan: Exploiting US dilemma
`PAKISTAN cornered', screamed a newspaper headline on Sunday morning. One wanted to scoff at this interpretation, knowing full well that the tragedy in the US, and the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden being the prime suspect, would only come as a breather to a Pakistan already cornered.

Taxation
`Undue' ST exemptions -- Why is Gujarat bending over backwards?
GUJARAT has been in the race for the past 10 years or so, one in which it has sought to emerge as the most industrialised State. In this endeavour, if it joined other States in the tax discount offers that marked the 1990s, not many eyebrows raised. But some figures of the Gujarat Sales Tax Department and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report for the year-ended March 2000 brings all these efforts under a cloud.

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