After the land acquisition bouncer, comes a googly from Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, this time in the form of the Draft National Reforms Policy 2013.

According to the draft, "Exemptions to religious, educational, charitable, research and industrial organisations, as well as plantations and aqua farms should be strictly discontinued. These institutions shall not be allowed to use more than one unit of 15 acre." Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.