Financial inclusion is an agenda of planning for development. India accepted this as a way of achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and incorporated it in the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). Now with NITI Aayog and Sustainable Development Goals...

The problem of food security is de facto and global. While we look at the financial crisis we cannot ignore the almost forgotten food crisis. India has revolutionised its agriculture but there is the phenomenon of food mountains and lakes alongside poverty, malnutrition and ill-health. For an...