India’s Bio-Diesel dream - The great Jatropha Scam in offing: Think if India’s dream of bio-diesel and the scheme of extensive jatropha cultivation would just go flop. What the farmers, who have been motivated to go for jatropha cultivation on waste lands and have been indulged in it, will do? They must have spent and worked on it. These farmers would be pushed into loan trap or forced to commit suicide if there is no yield or less yield. Editorial >>> Read More
World Economic Meltdown – Orissa must re-strategise its industrial policy to minimise After Effects: This is the right time for both people and government of Orissa to have an in-depth study whether the proposed 60 MoUs including POSCO, Vedanta and Tata Steel project in Kalinga Nagar will benefit the people of the state or they will be struggling for financial revival at the end of the day. The Profit and Loss (P&L) account of these projects should be evaluated. Sai Prasan >>> Read More
Orissa Tourism – Long way ahead to touch the mark: Goa has made amazing progress marking the highest in the tourism sector. The government deserves applause for the way it has turned its natural assets into commercial endeavour, thus making huge revenues for the state. On the contrary, although Orissa has every potential to be a world-class tourist destination, the state stands nowhere among preferred sightseeing spots in the country. Lisa Pradhan >>> Read More
Inflation at its Highest making way to food crisis: The pinch of spiking price rise is not only affecting the common man of India, but also
threatens the governments and impacts the total political system in the country. Starting from the leaders to the experts and the common man, everybody looks for a short way out of the crisis. T Prasad >>> Read More
Gee Pee emerges as a player in Indian Cellular Market: Looking at the boom and keeping in mind the Indian rural economy, Kolkata based telecom conglomerate Gee Pee Infotech Pvt. Ltd. has also entered the cellular market with a wide rage of products suitable to the wallet of rural consumers. HNF Correspondent >>> Read More
Industrialisation of Orissa – Politics of Disinvestments, De-industrialisation and Re-Industrialisation: In his first term as CM, Naveen initiated the drive to close the state owned industries and made Orissa virtually an industry starved... second term started with high sounding MOU drama. By now, over 50 MOUs have been signed with big corporate houses. Orissa soon became the investment hub attracting corporate groups for an anticipated investment of 400000 crores of rupees. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
Coal Bed Methane (CBM) - A natural resource base Orissa should Explore: Since Orissa possesses about 25% of the coal reserves of the country, it is only logical to assume that Orissa should contain about 25% of the CBM reserves of the country. And that makes CBM potential of Orissa stand at 250 billion cubic meters. Dr Nachiketa Das >>> Read More
Agriculture in India: Experiencing Backward Movement: The emergence of organized retailing and more specifically retailing in agriculture sector is more important from both micro as well as macro perspectives. In micro-perspectives the farmers are likely to gain the middlemen’s share... Rohit Arya >>> Read More
Agriculture Vs Industrialisation: Indian Economy pushed to a jump-shift - (2): Unmindful of the fact that the per capita land holding is already at an abysmally low of 0.25 acre, the government is using the draconian Land Acquisition Act 1854 to further acquisition in the name of development. Editorial >>> Read More
Agriculture Vs Industrialisation: Indian Economy pushed to a jump-shift - (1): The way industrialisation is pursued in India, it seems that Politicians and Bureaucrats of the country have been maniac about it. Large-scale industrialisation at whatever cost is considered and propagated, by the so called development advocates, to be the key of development of India. Editorial >>> Read More
Tourism Fuels More Investment into Orissa: Known worldwide as a huge base of natural resources, dense and diverse vegetation, vast mountain ranges inhabited by variety of wildlife, an endless strip of calm casuarinas fringed coastline, Orissa is equally rich with a cultural history marked by the holy shrines and monuments across the landscape explaining the development of monumental art and architecture. HNF Bureau >>> Read More
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