Sumita Kale
@sumitakale
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Economist @icfi_indicus Alum @Cambridge_Uni @gipe_official @FergussonPune @dpsrkpnet Co-founder DGPS, Pune-4
Pune, India
Joined January 2009
What will it take to acknowledge our own? Can we read earlier work, without prejudice, and apply it as relevant today? What have we lost out on by only citing the West? #IndianEconomists #development #RethinkingEconomics
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Read this! #Pune was once a pensioner’s pradise and student capital. Green, cool, #cycleable with salubrious localities. Its changed into ugly, dusty, less green and chaotic metro. We are headed for decay with the hyper dvlpt lacking aesthetics and vision. Can we still undo this?
I feel a tad bit sad every time I go outside the country. In Vietnam now. Lots of parks, used by the elderly for exercise and socializing. Lots of bicycles on the roads. We could have all this and more if only we could root out corruption and develop civic sense in India.
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@sumitakale @nitinwelde It is same with healthcare. Big hospitals and tertiary care is visible (politicians' oxygen) Corporates, contractors and education mafia makes money on that. Primary healthcare and prevention measures (safe water,air,food ; work,transport safety) are ignored. People get bad
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@sumitakale Brilliant analysis of why cities are sick of traffic, but won't take medicine, nor abstain from the dope. Maybe we knew this but haven't cared to summarise so well. In any case, the vicious cycle is only better analysed than broken; and so cities remain doomed with more roads.
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Point.
@sumitakale PUBLIC Transport: Visible leadership using them matters. Very important aspect that never worked. Same for health sector as every leadership runs to Singapore for medical treatment
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Choti Si Baat, Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, and now Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. In just a few days destiny has snatched away a significant chunk of our childhood companions.
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Fun Saturday evening with data! Three series Green, Orange and Blue Guess which one is a) Maharashtra Manufacturing b) Gujarat Manufacturing c) Maharashtra Real Estate, Ownership of Dwellings and Professional Services Data sourced from RBI Database and crosschecked with
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Good one, dont know whether to laugh or cry, I think real people have stopped reading!
Will 'real' intelligence understand what 'artificial' intelligence understands?
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So I asked chatgpt to explain what are the reasons behind the fascination with roads and flyovers+low attention to building public transport network - Got a very interesting comprehensive political economy map in response that am sharing and the conclusion also makes intuitive
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It's time to give up on India's state-owned environmental bodies. Not one lives up to its mandate. "Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were... reduced in size." https://t.co/Vscsceu5mC.
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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Builder ties, temple land, and "development" ... the Pune pattern writes itself. Dhangekar may be inconvenient, but he's asking what every Punekar who cares about Vetal Tekdi should.
पुणे शहराचे खासदार व केंद्रीय राज्यमंत्री मुरलीधर मोहोळ यांचा जैन होस्टेल खरेदी प्रकरणात सहभाग असल्याचे अनेक पुरावे पुणेकरांनी गेल्या काही दिवसात पाहिले आहेत. परंतु तरी देखील ते या सर्व गोष्टी योगायोग असलेले सांगतात. मी आपणास काही माहिती देऊ इच्छितो,मोहोळ हे खासदार होण्याच्या
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WOW!! @DhangekarRavi publicly links @mohol_murlidhar and 5 builders to the #Vetaltekdi projects. Says the BB rd is for the benefit of builders and not for any traffic reason! Who are the 3 unnamed builders? This is an appeal to journalists to investigate this grave allegation,
पुणे शहराचे खासदार व केंद्रीय राज्यमंत्री मुरलीधर मोहोळ यांचा जैन होस्टेल खरेदी प्रकरणात सहभाग असल्याचे अनेक पुरावे पुणेकरांनी गेल्या काही दिवसात पाहिले आहेत. परंतु तरी देखील ते या सर्व गोष्टी योगायोग असलेले सांगतात. मी आपणास काही माहिती देऊ इच्छितो,मोहोळ हे खासदार होण्याच्या
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Took both daughters for passport renewal today. Same documents. Same day. Same room. Two wildly different timelines. Because, of course.
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A very good report in @EconomicTimes on key recommendation among 38 reforms proposed by Rajiv Gauba-led committee’s report on the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector. https://t.co/cpU0eSRnOt As per the report, among the key MSME reform
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A high-level committee has proposed 38 reforms for India's MSME sector, environmental rules, FSSAI, and BIS. Key proposals include simplifying MSME definitions and compliance, exempting them from...
India’s 63 million MSMEs (still the backbone of GDP & jobs) may finally hog reform spotlight. Govt plans tax cuts, AI-led productivity push, faster IP & legal resolution. Big plans for small businesses could be the biggest growth unlock yet @bsindia
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The level of infra corruption in MH is genuinely astounding at this point. The most stupid ideas have approval. The most obvious ones? Nil. Virar walon ko local train chahiye. Sealink nai. BKC walon ko bus/police/light metro chahiye, BabaGadi (PodTaxi) nai. Uttan walon ko ek
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The @ASIGoI will not do anything and not allow others to do anything either. There is even a proverb for such behaviour. Several monuments under the state or municipal corporations have been beautified and restored. The Ahilya Step Well at Indore is an example. The ASI however
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Earlier, I asked why some support the BB–PP road. Balance demands that I now ask the other side, why some of us oppose it. I oppose the proposed BB–PP road because I…
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Punekars, if you feel that the proposed BB-PP road is a necessity, then please read this thread... You will know, how Punekars are taken for granted, and misguided by #PMC, for a construction project of a builder...
Pvt builder, PMC, Consultants who did Envt&Social Impact study for #BBPP road, all knew abt the hyper dvlpt planned on S.44 sunce 2019 when #SRA approved it. Yet none of these reports factor this in project study for the road!! (1/5)
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