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Prasanna Mohanty

Prasanna Mohanty

Prasanna Mohanty is a journalist, researcher and author with a career spanning over three decades. He primarily writes on various facets of Indian economy, including growth and development, trade and taxation, sectoral and climatic challenges, from policy and governance perspectives using data as a key tool.

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Together with reverse migration and a deficit monsoon, the rural jobs crisis may precipitate a livelihood crisis.

Jobs vanish in villages as MGNREGS fades, VB-G RAM G faces delays: Here’s why

by Prasanna Mohanty |Apr 23, 2026

Together with reverse migration and a deficit monsoon, the rural jobs crisis may precipitate a livelihood crisis.

Following the violence, Uttar Pradesh announced an interim hike in minimum wages from April 1.

BT Explainer: What brought Noida factory workers to fight on streets

by Prasanna Mohanty |Apr 15, 2026

Along with stagnant wages, longer working hours, contractual engagement, rising cooking gas and cooked food prices, the absence of a union and collective bargaining has produced a volatile mix

Shattered dreams: How India’s nano fertiliser strategy came a cropper

Shattered dreams: How India’s nano fertiliser strategy came a cropper

by Prasanna Mohanty |Apr 14, 2026

India's nano-fertiliser ambitions, which promised to make the country self-reliant in fertilisers, have fizzled out due to doubts over efficacy.

India isn’t atmanirbhar in fertilisers yet

BT EXPLAINER: Why the West Asia war may not trigger a fertiliser crisis in India

by Prasanna Mohanty |Mar 19, 2026

India has significantly ramped up fertiliser production in recent years and now has the potential to become self-sufficient

The doubtful job promise: ELI pins too much hope on large companies

The doubtful job promise: ELI pins too much hope on large companies

by Prasanna Mohanty |Aug 2, 2025

The new Rs 99,446 crore incentive to create 35 million new jobs in the formal sector over two years pins too much hope on big companies.

India has traditionally been a low fiscal spending state compared to developed economies

Rebooting Economy XXVII: Fiscal mismanagement threatens India's economic recovery

by Prasanna Mohanty |Sep 14, 2020

Not only India's relief packages are grossly inadequate it is not even spending enough to revive demand in the crisis-hit economy; what is needed is clear: more fiscal spending, not "keeping the power...

The best years of growth in national income and income share of the bottom 50% and the middle 40% happened during the "Nehruvian socialism" period

Rebooting Economy 70: The Bombay Plan and the concept of AatmaNirbhar Bharat

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 27, 2021

The Bombay Plan, authored by the doyens of industry in 1944 first envisioned state planning, state ownership and control of industries to make India "self-sufficient" long before Nehru's ideas took ro...

India does not have any idea about 94% of its total workforce, which works in the informal sector

Rebooting Economy 69: What do workers gain from growth and profits?

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 21, 2021

Persistent negative growth in rural wages and soaring corporate profits accompanied by job and wage cuts demonstrate a clear disconnect between growth/profits and wellbeing of ordinary Indians

Indian banking suffers from non-disclosures of stressed assets (NPAs) - as the RBI's Asset Quality Review (AQR) revealed in 2016

Rebooting Economy 67: Set the record straight before setting up a Bad Bank

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 14, 2021

India needs to collect and declare credible data on stressed assets, identify sectors and companies where these are accumulated and be transparent in insolvency resolution before jumping to a new mech...

What compromises the Indian economy further is India's repeated failure to resolve stressed assets over the past few decades

Rebooting Economy 66: Is India facing credit deprivation to warrant corporation banks?

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 10, 2021

RBI's database, reports and other evidence show India is credit surplus; large industrial houses have high debt stress, and that easy credit poses serious macro-financial risks to the economy