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Haradhan Ganguly

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Mr. Haradhan Ganguly is a freelance contributor

Good bye 2017 and our economy!

Haradhan Ganguly

If I am asked to say on how was the economy of the year 2017 approaching to the end, I will say it was a big success. We were able to break out trap of six per cent growth and achieved a record growth of 7.23 per cent: the biggest achievement for the economy in ...

Intrinsic causes behind the price hike of rice

Haradhan Ganguly

Over six years, our yearly rice production has been getting reached to the extent of more than 3 crore tonnes. Side by side our import of rice has been soaring up day by day. Yet we see a quite discernable mismatch in market demand and supply of rice. It is often told of the losses ...

On the question of declining female employment

Haradhan Ganguly

Is it backpedalling on progress when we say female employees are on decline? That also contradicts our growth performance. It is ambivalence to see agri-cards are helping farmers to buy inputs in one side and on the other media reports employment of female workers in the agricultural sector also falls from previous records. We are ...

Electricity price: Economy will see inflationary pressure

Haradhan Ganguly

[By hitting retail consumers in the markets from demand side, industrial sectors like garments, textile, re-rolling, pharmaceuticals, leather and all other small and medium industries and exports, what fruits people will get in short and long run at power price hike in phases, it is far to realize.]We had not forgotten the experience of electricity ...

Price hike: Policy matters

Haradhan Ganguly

Today's talk on soaring price of rice is not only showing the result of mismatch of supply and demand and the misdeeds of dishonest traders, but policy pursuit also matters in this regards. Government's success story in agriculture proves its way in achieving self-sufficiency in food production. But such self-sufficiency does not mean to be ...

Now they are realizing

Haradhan Ganguly

Now banking sector seems to come to realization. To cut ballooning of non-performing loans (NPLs ) at a rational state, they need their own strategies, banks are thinking likewise. It's a positive ovation so far as ongoing running down scenario is concerned. Thanks to concerned level, the latest observations came at a time when the ...

The economy, in between shining click and dwindling

Haradhan Ganguly

*** ''But one frustrating issue works here that this year the export of leather goods might not grow at the same space as in July due to the shift of factories from Hazaribagh to Savar. Of the 155 relocated leather factories, the majority could not start their production due to a lack of gas connection.'' ...

Only Bangabandhu-denial this truth is crime

Haradhan Ganguly

To write on a man with a mythic aura around him, one is to take venture on separating legends from facts. Assessment of Bangabandhu, the architect of Bangalee nationalism which got ripe into a statehood, is organically represented both from history and ideology. Thereby acceptance and renunciation syndrome have roots in history amounting to acceptance ...

Where to stop loan rescheduling

Haradhan Ganguly

*** ''In FY 2017 the share of banking sector in GDP was 2.91 per cent. The contribution of other financial institutions including non-banking financial institutions and insurances was only 0.5 per cent of GDP. So in no way financial sectors could be kept behind the progress of other sectors.'' ***It is discomfort to hear that ...

Budget 2017-18: A cocktail of populism with economic interests

Haradhan Ganguly

Behind a set of challenges like declining exports and remittance growth, stagnant private investment and hefty reliance on foreign financing-highest in history, we got budget for the next financial year 2017-18. In nowhere and no time a budget is approached challengeless in any country. The question is capability to face the changes. Our Finance Minister ...