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....
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Oct 16, 2022 | Business & Infrastructure
Mysore Sandal Soap : The Best in the Class Circa 1900: On account of the unique and natural forest condition prevailing in the Mysore region and adjoining areas, the princely state of Mysore was one of the largest producers of sandalwood (Santalum album) in the world....
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Oct 5, 2022 | Governance
Smart Policing Soon after becoming prime minister, Narendra Modi coined the acronym SMART Police. S stood for strict and sensitive, M for modern and mobile, A for alert and accountable, R for reliable and responsive, and T for tech-savvy and trained. However, if much...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Sep 23, 2022 | Agriculture
NAFED, IFFCO, ICAR can fix India’s food security by going global In 2008, when I was the Agriculture Secretary to the government of West Bengal, I was invited to speak at a meeting of the International Co-operative Alliance and the Gulf Cooperation Council in Abu...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Sep 8, 2022 | Governance
Why PM’s Nudge to Fill Lakhs of Public Sector Jobs is Affordable and Doable Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked all the central ministries, departments and PSUs to fill up the 8.72 lakh vacancies by 2024. Even as some newspapers commented that such a scale of...
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