Best of BS Opinion: Searching for growth, beyond civil society, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Growth in jobs, infrastructure and information firewall are what we have today

R Jagannathan: The only real solution to the jobs crisis, whether in India or abroad, is to direct tech innovation towards job enhancing sectors, and disincentivising job-replacing ones.
 

Vinay Chatterjee describes what the Budget can do for infrastructure.
 

Shashi Shekhar Vempati: While the open internet is a soft spot for a large democracy like India, it can also be an effective geopolitical deterrent when free availability of information is most feared by your hostile neighbour..
 

The first edit stresses competitiveness and productivity in achieving growth.

The second edit poses questions about the government’s adversarial towards NGOs

 

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One of the things that is probably amazing to see is India is leading when it comes to digital public goods and digital infrastructure … One of the things probably unbelievable, amazing, great to see is India lead when it comes to digital public goods.

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella