Articles by Indu Bharti

Fighting the Irrigation Mafia in Bihar Indu Bharti Chief minister Laloo Prasad and the irrigation minister in his cabinet are currently engaged in a determined effort, in the teeth of opposition from MLAs of their own party as well, to bring to heel the irrigation mafia which has over the years defrauded the state exchequer of hundreds of crores of rupees in the construction, maintenance and repair of flood control embankments.

Indu Bharti Sustained people's protest may well result in the stalling of the Koel-Karo project. But several other similar projects continue to be constructed in the State with little concern for the oustees, who are mostly tribals.

dollar-mark rate surged to a new nine- month high. Only heavy central bank selling checked the rapid rise of the currency. The dollar's recent behaviour seems to have belittled the role of exchange rate as an asset market stock price, The currency's strength is said to have been based on the optimism permeating the exchange market that the US economy is experiencing a very shallow recession and that with the BIHAR Centre against Bihar Indu Bharti There has been a continuing traffic of Central ministers, including the prime minister himself, to Bihar with the explicit purpose of manoeuvring the ouster of the State government.

Survival against Heavy Odds Indu Bharti Chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has succeeded in bringing a measure of stability and earnestness to the governance of chronically mismanaged Bihar But since in the process he has upset a variety of vested interests, the latter are using their political representatives to try to pull down his government.

allegiance to his party back to the Janata. The non-Lingayats are disorganised and demoralised. Their tragedy is that they must unite or forever play second fiddle to the Lingayats. This means the sacrifice of legitimate personal and caste ambitions and willing submission to a common leader, subsuming separate objectives. The call for a leader imposed by Rajiv Gandhi is proof of their dilemma. It is a herculean task to discover and foster true internal democracy in such a disparate band.