by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Mar 17, 2023 | Agriculture
The Magic of ‘Rataul’ Circa 1874: Barden, an engineer engaged to supervise the construction of the Eastern Canal in the Baghpat region of Meerut, brought some plants of the Bambai variety from the Bombay Presidency (as Maharashtra was then known). These were grown by...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Mar 2, 2023 | Agriculture
The ‘Orange Bowl’ of Manipur Ten years ago, around this time, this writer accompanied the Shaurya Chakra Awardee Col DPK Pillay, at his insistence, to the remote and beautiful district of Tamenglong of Manipur to study the potential of Citrus Reticulata Blanco...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Dec 21, 2022 | Governance
Pension or Tension? A recent government notification by the Department of Pensions and Pensioner Welfare allows employees under the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to opt for benefits for self and their next of kin under the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in case of disablement or...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Nov 25, 2022 | Defence & Foreign Policy
Safeguarding the Indian Borders India’s land borders with six countries – Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Nepal, and Bhutan as well as the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir – pose a major security challenge to the nation. India also has the world’s longest...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Nov 1, 2022 | Agriculture
Grapes, the New Gold Nearly one century ago, an innovative farmer entrepreneur by the name of Ramrao J Gaikwad started the commercial production of grapes in the town of Ojhar in the vicinity of Nashik. The year was 1925, and there has been no looking back since then....
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