I had gone to Jaipur for a conference on the Political Economy of Competition and Regulation in India. Well as part of my plans I also decided to meet a friend of mine from school after some 16 years. She was the hardworking studious girl who topped class and did all the “right” things, got her medicine degree both  graduate and post graduate from the best medical schools of Delhi. Standard story of how family compulsions got her to Jaipur and she thought of taking a teaching job at a private medical college. (more…)

Carrying capacity is defined as maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without any adverse impact on it. Since long, researchers have spent considerable time to understand the implication of the concept of carrying capacity in context of the tourism destinations. The advantages and disadvantages of limiting the numbers of visitors and as a consequence the imposing restrictions on (more…)

Safal Solutions has come out with a new mobile application “SafalKHETI”. SafalKHETI is an innovation out of collaboration between Rural E-Services Project of Sheffield Hallam University-UK, Oxford University-UK, Overseas Development Institute-UK, Engineering Physics Scientific Research Centre-UK and Saral Services, Hyderabad. (more…)

Recently I had an opportunity to visit a few villages in Amravati for a study related to cotton cultivation. One of these villages is “Wadhna”, which is located at a distance of about 40 Km. from Amravati. (more…)

Eko is building a low cost financial services infrastructure ….. (more…)