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Sanjay Bhargava Budget and UFA - A banking revolution ?

All villages with a population greater than 2000 will get banking facilities by March 2012. Very nice but again the devil will be in the details. The finance minister stated this in his budget speech.

Atul has made some detailed posts on the budget and there are strong reasons for cautious optimism. I hope now some bank CEO's will see this as a great business opportunity. With new banks and increasing competition we may witness a banking rev

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Added by Sanjay Bhargava on March 5, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Union Budget 2010-11: Upbeat on Indian Growth Prospects

The stock market witnessed a rare budget rally this time-at least after four years; fiscal policy shaped with the recommendations of the Thirteenth Finance Commission {TFC}that strived for a gradual exit strategy from the expansionary fiscal measures including those of stimulus packages g

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Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on March 3, 2010 at 7:57pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur James Wilson: Progenitor of Financial Budget in India

“He delighted in India and regarded her resources with hopeful interest, her people with sympathy, her scenery with admiration, and her antiquities with curiosity. Nothing, he said could be imagined more intensely interesting than India…” these word would best canopied the sound affiliati

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Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on February 24, 2010 at 8:54pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Expanding Roles of Regional Rural Banks

Regional Rural Banks were first set up in the year 1975, under the RRB Ordinance Act {1975}; the ordinance was later replaced by the RRB Act {1976}. Formation of these banks was the result of the growing realization that the ethos and attitude of the existing Public Sector banks were not

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Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on February 24, 2010 at 8:52pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Survival: New Buzzword in Mutual Fund Industry

The recent regulatory ruling by the Stock Exchange Board of India {SEBI} of scrapping distribution fee from equity schemes has multiplied the adversity of smaller fund houses. Enforcement of this practices are now shaping the investors temptation in completely new direction as cost and quality conscious investors now increasingly contemplati

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Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on February 24, 2010 at 8:48pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Establishment of RBI: A brief Account

Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal during the twilight of eighteenth century was an unusual top end British official who introduced some noble changes within his jurisdiction in colonial India albeit his later life completely defied his pre imminence and early fortune as he became th

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Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on February 24, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Sanjay Bhargava Jobs at Lets do it! Delhi

The people have to be exceptional. May be deputed from companies or prepared to invest in themselves. You may be the talent LDID seeks or you may know people http://tinyurl.com/yfnwg4u

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Added by Sanjay Bhargava on February 10, 2010 at 8:07am — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Bombay Meri Jaan, Alas!

The protagonist of cinema CID was a beat relaxed singing “Ae dil hai mushkil jeena yahan, zara bachke-zara hatake, ye hai Bombay meri jaan”because he only had to save himself from bustling buses, trams, thugs and other worldly oddities; lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri would have been added some extra features in his city narrative song if possibly abled to foresee the current political projection against the non-Marathi speaking hacks in the city of Mumbai-especially against those hailing from north… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Albert Camus: Champion of the Absurd

A maverick freethinker and literary sensation called Albert Camus was born in 1914 in Algeria, then that was despite being under the control of France was apart on many counts which later also shaped his fortune in intellectual circle of France. It was a big misfortune that this genius was died on midway on January 4th 1960, merely at the age of forty-six in a road accident albeit till than he had already reached the ladder of Nobel Prize for literary contribution. An honest historical inquiry f… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Revival of Bihar

The economy’s spectacular growth in five years up to 2008-09 was propelled by the initiatives at the grass root level, with the traditional backward and poor states turning into miracle economies. As par new Central Statistical Organization {CSO} surveys, at 11.03 percent, growth rate of Bihar only a step behind Gujarat {11.05%} and much above the National average of 8.49%.Bihar’s this revolutionary growth of 11.03% is almost seems like Chinese growth; the growth rate of Bihar assumes all the mo… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Breaking Points before Innovation

Innovation stands for the introduction of noble things, ideas or ways of doing something that has been introduced systematically or discovered randomly. Infact innovations are experiment that emerged out from the cognitive order of its progenitor and at best reflect an ideal situation possible through its meticulous execution in a proper given set of order albeit lot of peoples afraid to be in touch with such propositions as they believed it a shaky hypothesis which refrain them for an experimen… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Basudeb Sen Corporate Social Responsibility & Corporate Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Governance (CG) have become the most fashionable subjects of discussion over the last two decades. Both these subjects have become important because of primarily one reason: the adverse impact of many companies/ corporations, businesses on the entire society or significant parts of the society. Although each and every business enterprise has not been found to produce adverse impact, the cases of large adverse impact have counted for the damagin… Continue

Added by Basudeb Sen on January 26, 2010 at 2:34pm — No Comments

Sanjay Bhargava Lets Do it Delhi

A movement to clean Delhi started by wife. See coverage in TOI . Those who are in Delhi may want to add their weight of one by joining the lets do it delhi movement and if they have more time playing an active role. There are similar clean up movements in Bengaluru, Kolkata. You could join these or start your own movement in your city like Allahabad, Kanpur etc. I am working on a presentation called "Stopping Citizen "Rape" in India usi… Continue

Added by Sanjay Bhargava on January 24, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Sanjay Bhargava Twitter Founder takes aim at Mobile Payments

Very interesting. Should be watched closely. Could benefit UFA. To read more click here Continue

Added by Sanjay Bhargava on January 3, 2010 at 6:03pm — 1 Comment

Atul Kumar Thakur Commoners Stake in Accesses

Commoners Stake in Accesses As we are heading for a dawn of New Year with leaving this epoch making year in which we partially upfront with the havocking recession and later witnessed its recovery to a scale; amidst these loose and gain situation, its marginal impact on commoners or Aam admi could be sensed very high despite their substantial proportions in low end services . Frequent retrenchments and layoffs in the name of cost cutting measures and inflation surging like banyan trees are relen… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on December 31, 2009 at 9:20pm — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Corporate Social Responsiblity-Epithet of Ethics

Recently we have completed the first corporate week (December14-December2009) in our country on behalf of Ministry of Corporate affairs, Government of India; the initiative indeed shown partially the optimization of politics and economics with a voice for practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In a recent survey of AC Nielson on CSR, India ranked on fourth position where Australia viewed as best place of CSR initiative; on cards at least it gives India a remarkable position in compa… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on December 25, 2009 at 11:17am — 1 Comment

Sanjay Bhargava Term Insurance in India - AEGON Religare

In India most consumers do not realize that the only life insurance they should consider buying is term insurance which just provides you risk cover and has no investment angle or return of premium component. Most people should not self insure their lives especially if relatively cheap insurance options exist. if you or a family member do not have adequate insurance consider buying the cover you need for the term you need it for. AEGON Religare has a policy called I-Term which you can o… Continue

Added by Sanjay Bhargava on December 11, 2009 at 9:43am — No Comments

Atul Kumar Thakur Falling of the Dubai Dreams

Clamouring is quite high after the Dubai debt crisis has put a halt on the six-year boom in the Emirates real estate sector. In recent times, Dubai almost became a conglomerate of real estate companies; it refused to accept the harsh reality and uninterruptedly pronounced its ambition to become the world financial centre with lot of funds pouring into real estate, including housing. There was infact a madding rush among the rich peoples to brought some property in Dubai, a huge proportion of the… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on December 8, 2009 at 8:23pm — 1 Comment

Sanjay Bhargava SMSONE

A start up in India that is making Silicon Valley jealous. Read more here. In the open letter that started the UFA movement that once innovation is allowed to flourish people will find ways to make things happen. Maybe companies like SMSONE reinforce that point. Continue

Added by Sanjay Bhargava on December 1, 2009 at 6:13pm — 1 Comment

Atul Kumar Thakur Online Platform: Tech Edge for Mutual Funds

Technologies has many especialties and liabilities to evolve, nurture and grown up the happy means to deliver utmost simplification in day-to-day life. Indeed the Security Exchange Board of India (SEBI) would have been sensed the similar feelings before executing the online trading platform for Mutual funds with aim to reduce its operational costs and address the issue of pan-Indian penetration. The online Mutual fund trading platform would probably do to the Mutual fund space what dematerializa… Continue

Added by Atul Kumar Thakur on November 29, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

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