Pradip Baijal

'Let's not stall energy security'

We have stalled various projects of national importance on one ground or the other; let us not do the same with Reliance's KG Basin gas.

A steel famine on the horizon

Demand in 2012 was anticipated as 89 million tonnes; the rest of the capacity would help make India a major exporter of steel, rather than being a major exporter of iron-ore without any value-addition. That was then.

Don't kill telecom by auctioning spectrum

Previous experiments with auctions ended up disastrously and some of these regimes then had to be modified.

The lesson from telecom, cable TV & FM radio

The lesson from telecom, FM radio and cable TV is that lowering licence fees increases usage and raises government revenues.

Why India's telecom regulator embraced competition

Is this Wild West or was this needed?