Nothing illustrates the inefficacy of the government’s inflation-fighting strategies better than the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited’s (Nafed’s) onion distributing efforts. From Thursday, Nafed, the government’s oilseed procurement agency, started selling onions through mobile vans at Rs 35 a kg in Delhi. It has started with 15 vans that can carry 7,500 kg of onions. But at a media briefing to announce the move, Nafed Chairman Bijender Singh said the quantity is like “Uunt ke muh me jeera (too small an amount for a large need)” and the agency will have to introduce more vans later.
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The Niira Radia tapes blew the myth of the arm’s length relationship between journalists and public relations professionals, but the significance of this appears to have escaped the attention of a Kolkata-based public relations agency that recently invited nominations for a journalism award. Maybe a journalism award instituted by a public relations company is a reflection of our times?