Biodigester: An Antidote to Cities’ Septage Management Challenges

I have a new article on one of the underpinning cities of cities in India. It is even grave situation in state like Tamil Nadu.

Few years ago DRDO, GoI, had came out with a decentralized technology to address the septage waste management, despite its high potentials, this technology has not been revolutionized yet. This year Union Budget has also talked about it a bit.

This article explains the need for revolutionary of decentralized septage waste management with bio-digester technology,

Very few companies makes cost effective DRDO model bio-digester septage tanks with its technology, MAK India Limited is one such company which makes quality bio-digester with cost effective manner.

My Talk: Dr P.V. Raghavan Endowment Lecture

My Talk on Union Budget Making and Implementation: Public policy Perspective: Dr P.V. Raghavan Endowment Lecture

On last Saturday i.e. 30.01.2021, I was invited to deliver the Prof Dr P V Raghavan Endowment Lecture on "Union Budget Making Process and Implementations in India: Public Policy Perspective", organised by Department of Economics, D G Vaishnav College, Chennai.

I was humbled by the presence of Prof.P.V Raghavan, who is now aged above 80s but was keen to participate in the event. He was Extremely inspiring teacher of economics especially micro economics.

The Union Budget is a important policy document of the government but how it is prepared to address various sectors issues and challenges are something unknown. There is seems to be missing some institutional framework system for stages of budget making process with some fair amount of transparency and accountability on decisions.

Moreover, the regulators and implementer of the budget announcements were always find clueless practically.