Featured here, some of the recent media coverage of related topics:

• Rahul Gandhi discussed NREGA with PM. But, BBC report shows Congress-ruled states as laggards

          An interesting blog posting on how the BJP-ruled states are where NREGA is showing better success. Read more…

•  McKinsey’s Rajat Gupta on Health and Education
  In a Podcast interview with Kamla Bhatt, Rajat Gupta( Senior Partner and Former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company Worldwide) shares his views on how inclusive growth can happen.
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• Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath believes that SEZs are vital for Inclusive Growth.
  Kamal Nath believes that “the development of special economic zones (SEZs) would lead to the growth of all sections of society and the development of the economy”.
  Read more about this in the September 13 story by India eNews 

• An unusual suggestion by the Left parties to resolve the ongoing tussle regarding organised retail. 
  The Left parties have apparently mooted a solution where both big retail chains and mom-and-pop stores can co-exist. The government is considering the Left’s proposal for levying a cess on big retailers to provide cheaper credit to small retailers. The proposed model of retail development would be offered to the states for adoption, depending on individual states’ policy preference.  Read this interesting bit of news in the India Retail Forum blog report.

• In his Independence Day address, the PM asserts that, “India cannot become a nation with islands of high growth and vast areas untouched by development. Where the benefits of growth accrue only to a few. This is good neither for our society nor for our polity”.
  Read the full text of his speech, courtesy HT.

• Economic Times reports on CII’s appeal to the UP government that, “Retail ban will affect inclusive growth”. Expressing fears that the recent orders by the Uttar Pradesh Government to close the Reliance Fresh stores will have adverse impact on the pace of inclusive growth of the country, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) appealed to the Mayawati Government to reconsider its decision.
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• “For inclusive growth, give me urban municipalities too”, Mani Shankar Aiyar tells PM. Indian Express talks about this tussle for more power. “In the absence of a composite Ministry of Panchayats and Nagarpalikas at the Centre, effective district planning to bridge the rural-urban divide and institutionalize processes of inclusive growth is not possible,” says Aiyar in a letter to the Prime Minister last month.
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