Abhishek Kumar Singh

Same Movement, Different Business Structure Social entrepreneurship has emerged rapidly in the last decade. It’s a wave that started because people are coming to the conclusion that governments around the world are failing to solve social problems. To combat that problem, businesses have decided to step up and fight for change. The size of nonprofit organizations has grown significantly over the years. Colleges and universities are offering more degree programs for those interested in jobs with a social focus. Most major MBA programs now offer some classes on social entrepreneurship. There are even foundations that solely invest in social entrepreneurs. It’s a revolution to aid change and usually incorporate the following aspects: Entrepreneurial Spirit Entrepreneurial spirit is a mindset. I look at it like an attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It's a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, servi...

For the first time ever in the history of the Indian Armed Forces, uniformed personnel from the Army, Air Force and Navy have been appointed formally as additional secretary and joint secretaries in the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This will help in streamlining decision making powers and other functions. When was the order issued? In an order issued earlier this week, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) which is headed by Prime Minister  Narendra Modi , Lt Gen Anil Puri has been appointed as the Additional Secretary in the Department of Military Affairs (DMA). Maj Gen K. Narayanan, Rear Admiral Kapil Mohan Dhir and Air Vice Marshal Hardeep Bains all three are now joint secretaries in the DMA. The office of DMA is now in the second year of being set up. As part of major reforms undertaken in the Ministry of Defence, this office was set up in 2020, and is headed by CDS Gen Bipin Rawat. So far, the files had to be sent to the Secretary, DMA for any decisions to be made. Wit...

I write this with deep anguish hoping that our vice-chancellors and heads of the higher education institutions will listen to a common teacher. Every day we hear news of our colleagues dying, dying because they could not get oxygen support in time or because they wasted time running from hospital to hospital. It is heartbreaking to see young colleagues, in their 30s and 40s, dying. Many more are struggling for life. This is about teachers. But there are innumerable students who are desperately appealing for oxygen, hospital beds, many suffering themselves, many for members of their immediate and extended families, many more for friends. Some we know, but there are many more we will never know about.In all universities, we have contractual teachers. At the University of Delhi, where I teach, there is a vast number of teachers working as guest faculty. Many of them have not been paid for a long time. Some of them have been hit by the coronavirus. The university has not even thought about...

Government Gives Itself A Fiscal Long Rope break of the government’s fiscal position has been confirmed. This is what the fiscal numbers look like: FY21 fiscal deficit at 9.5%. As part of this, the government will borrow another Rs 80,000 crore in the next two months of this year alone. For FY22, the fiscal deficit is pegged at 6.8% of GDP. The gross borrowing will be Rs 12 lakh crore. The total expenditure for FY21 has settled at Rs 34.50 lakh crore. For FY22, total expenditure is pegged at Rs 35 lakh crore. The new fiscal roadmap is also taking a slow route. The fiscal deficit will be reduced to 4.5% by FY26. 3% fiscal deficit target now a forgotten dream? (Aside: As an attempt to bring transparency, the Food Corporation’s borrowings from the National Small Savings Funds will be stopped)  Greater Reliance On Borrowings From Small Savings The government has pegged the FY22 fiscal deficit at 6.5% of GDP or Rs 15.06 lakh crore. But market borrowings at about Rs 12 lakh crore. How? F...

  The Bombay High Court judgment on sexual assault: A serious matter The judgment does not merely read into the statute a requirement not otherwise found in it; it operates to diminish the experience of children, and especially young girls.  the first floor of his house to find that a room had been bolted from the outside. She discovered, upon opening the door, that her daughter had been   locked   in the room. The child was crying. She then proceeded to tell her mother that under the pretext of giving her a guava, the accused had lured her into his house and proceeded to press her breast and tried to remove her   salwar . A First Information Report was lodged immediately thereafter. The Special Court found that the accused was guilty of offences under Sections 354 (a statutory relic that criminalizes assault with intent to “outrage the modesty of a woman”), 363 (kidnapping) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and of sexual assaul...

  ॐ गं गणपतये नम: सर्वांना सुख समृद्धि शांती आरोग्य लाभो, हीच बप्पाच्या चरणी प्रार्थना। गणेश चतुर्थीच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा। समस्त देशवासियों को गणेश चतुर्थी की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें! भगवान श्री गणेश हम सभी को सुख, शांति, सुरक्षित और स्वस्थ रखें यही मनोकामना है! गणपति बप्पा मोर्या