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Sachi Satapathy

Sachi Satapathy

Sachi Satapathy is an international development practitioner who has worked on large-scale projects. His interests are in public policy, poverty alleviation and public-private partnerships for development in middle-income and developing countries. He can be reached at sachisatpathy@yahoo.com

India Opinion

Gujarat result shows choice young Indian voters have in 2019

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) narrowly escaped a defeat in the recently concluded Gujarat state election. The election result on Modi’s home turf assumes significance, as Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi challenged Modi in his home state and provided Congress its best performance in 25 years. Gandhi’s political narrative has also started appealing to people across the country, as he rolled out a decent campaign without making any personal attacks on his opponent and ensured...

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Modi damages delicate fabric of federal-state relationships

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Is Narendra Modi pushing for more centralization of the Prime Minister’s Office? Are chief ministers of states ruled by opposition parties facing partisan approaches from the federal government? Is Modi ignoring states while making key policy decisions unilaterally? Has his government damaged the delicate fabric of federal-state relationships with its insensitivity and aggression toward opposition-run states? These critical questions have started overshadowing the concept of cooperative federalism in India. Critics says Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are trying...

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Compared with Singh, Modi looking like a low achiever

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Promising a good life for India's 1.25 billion people, Narendra Modi won the national election and took over as prime minister in May 2014. Unfortunately, after just three and a half years in office, Modi is quickly losing his popularity because of his failures on several fronts. Many now think Manmohan Singh, Modi’s predecessor, was a better prime minister. Singh was a proponent of inclusive growth, whose economic ideology of combining development with social equity was key to his achievements as prime minister. From making India part of the international...

India Opinion

India’s worsening employment trends: Modi in denial

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing anger from his core voters, "educated youth", because of his government's inability to generate enough jobs as he promised during the election campaign in 2014. Modi promised 10 million jobs a year, but in actuality, the total number of jobs created in the first three years of his government is just 1.51 million, which is 39% less than the 2.47 million jobs created in the previous three years (April 2011 to March 2014). And the story of a...

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