Inheritance on Sale
The situation was a key factor in destabilising the public sector undertakings in Jammu and Kashmir. Some of the PSUs were pulled out of...
Enabling Better Schooling
Poplars in Kashmir and the people in Pulwama have been acknowledged as key contributors to reducing India’s dependence on imports in managing the pencil...
Dubai Details
The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...
Old Ideas, New Investments
With impressive concessions in hand, as the government is busy planning to get investors from the plains to change the industrial culture in a...
‘The World Around Us Will Change In These Two Years’
Before joining as Jammu and Kashmir’s Principal Secretary for Industries and Commerce, senior IRTS officer, Ranjan Prakash Thakur has held many key positions. Born...
‘We Are Paying Interest On Interest’
As the GST introduced taxing of the industry for the first time in history, the work environment turned upside down, initially in August 2019...
Locked Down, Jobless
As the counter pandemic lockdown prolongs, thousands of people in unorganised and transporter, retail and services sectors are literally jobless. Left to fend for...
‘We Want Willow Cleft Smuggling To Be Strictly Curbed’
Ghulam Qadir Bhat, the leader of Kashmir’s bat manufacturers tells Waseem Dar
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the state and status of bat industry in...
Winds of Change
With the setting up of an Industrial Estate, Lassipora seemingly has undergone palpable socio-economic change. Alongside tangible infrastructure improvements, the locals are happy about...
Power Push
Government’s effort to complete an electrification project ahead of schedule has helped a new group of entrepreneurs to get into the manufacture and value...
Silk Since 1846
Kashmir has seen various ups and downs in managing the silk as an industry and an economy for the state and the people. Here...
Breaking Solina’s Silence
For the last many years, a process was set in motion to convert the heritage filatures in the sprawling Solina into a developmental graveyard...
The Silken Knot
Vested interest, negative policy interventions, market shifts and nature intervened in the unmaking of world’s biggest silk factory in Kashmir. As cocoon production fell...
Missing Moneybags
State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...
Taxing Times
The pellet-powered government was so shocked by the reaction to new tax regime that it is unable to tell people that it wanted to...