Business
Budget 2017: A four-point agenda for Arun Jaitley to boost farm productivity
Budget 2017-18 is expected to make a push beyond input factors towards streamlining the overall value-chain of the agriculture sector
India
Less water, more vapour? Arun Jaitley’s $13-billion irrigation plan that’s failed 66 million farmers
A two-decade old Central programme to finish incomplete irrigation projects has failed 66 million Indian farmers and halted the economic progress of 350 million Indians.