“India needs more entrepreneurs with almost a million people joining the workforce every year. If we don’t groom the job-creators (entrepreneurs), we will have a bigger problem on our hands in the future.”
Sunil Kanoria, president of Assocham, on clearing the “NPA (non-performing assets) mess” of banks to boost entrepreneurship (Outlook, June 6)
“The kerfuffle about when a report commissioned by the government ought to be released, immediately or after states have commented on it, is a storm in a teacup. Of far more concern should have been why it was given to mostly retired bureaucrats, rather than academics and experts, to prepare.”
Jay Panda, BJD member of Parliament, on membership of the committee to prepare the draft National Education Policy 2016 (Times of India, June 8)
“One way of looking at Raghuram Rajan story: War on crony capitalism is over. Full normalcy restored. Capitalism lost, cronies won.”
Shekhar Gupta, well-known journalist, on Raghuram Rajan’s announcement that he will not accept a second term as governor of the Reserve Bank of India (June 18)
“We can find our voice in the world again, a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.”
Boris Johnson, former London mayor, after the UK voted ‘Leave’ in a referendum to exit the European Union (June 24)
“For a full half-century India’s hapless public have faced a continuing deterioration of our higher education system. The blame must be laid squarely at the door of the UGC (University Grants Commission) which has all along enjoyed unbridled power in the regulation of universities with scant accountability. Its small-mindedness has succeeded in turning the Indian university into a wasteland, and it has got away with it.”
Pulapre Balakrishnan, economics professor at Ashoka University, demanding public audit of the UGC (The Hindu, June 27)