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Sajikumar Nair

Pandemic saga: Desperate attempt to sell old wine in a new bottle

Ecostar Editor MagMarch 9, 2021 2423 Views0

Routinely, a section defies government orders, States defy Central orders, farmers defy farm laws. With the same equation, if people defy orders of lockdown, unafraid of infection and finding it unnecessary, a legible question of what is immoral in it is unanswerable. Politicians and bureaucrats have become great fans of the highly disgusting and notorious word “lockdown“, which appeared in Maharashtra’s air again amid the "rising number" of Covid-19 cases. At the fag-end of February 2021, eleven months after the doomed lockdown was set out, the threat of a similar lockdown would only mean hell. According to Dr Giridhara Babu, an epidemiologist, “Lockdown was necessary in March 2020 as the health system had to be upgraded to ensure adequate oxygen supplies, medicines as well as human re...

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Tears of garment industry: Not so colourful for another year

Ecostar Editor MagOctober 22, 2020 2656 Views0

The sector sees no hope of revival for another one year, as the pandemic is feared to swallow two more festival seasons. Human beings will never stop wearing clothes. People will never stop buying garments. Still, the garment industry has lost its hopes. The industry, dominated largely by unorganized players and with a high level of micro sectors’ involvement as an outsourcing destination, feels the pain with the micro sector losing their base. The demonetization, GST implementation and now the worse lockdown kept them on a deathbed. The garment industry has been passing through a long-drawn bad phase. No industry, as important as the garment sector ever faced a crisis for as long a period as five years. This sector has been suffering for over five years, because of the three major ...

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The Endless Troubles of MSMEs: Need a prudent framework to safeguard the interest

Ecostar Editor MagOctober 22, 2020 1922 Views0

For MSMEs Covid-19 induced lockdown is just another crisis. India’s hostility with China has opened newer opportunities for SMEs engaged in the high technology and engineering segment. But it is not the opportunity that an average SME is worried about, but the inspector raj and delay in giving approvals. Every SME has this problem. Most SMEs are also afraid of local satraps’ pressure to meet their interests. Local authorities must handle them strictly and warn them of consequences. However, these satraps are hand-in-glove with law enforcers too.   It is important to debottleneck local issues, says an entrepreneur who has been engaged in manufacturing aluminium foils. Plenty of local hooliganism triggered by local politicians and NGOs kill the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs, who spend...

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