Demonetisation Impact on GST and Liquidity Gridlock-led Business Growth Crisis

Nov 15, 2017

Spill-over effects of demonetization and its impact on GST is having unintended consequence of acute liquidity crisis in trade and industry. There is a wide-spread delays/defaults in inter-firm credit based payment system. Businesses are experiencing a…

Is GST Applicable for the Industry Associations?

Oct 24, 2017

July is the month of monsoon for the rest of Northern Hemisphere, but Indian government had its twist. Government choose to bring clouds of Goods and Services Tax (GST) for everyone; the cloud that would not…

Why GST is Getting Surat Terrified

Jul 06, 2017

Starting the 27th of June, the MSMEs belonging to the Textile Industry in Surat have been in a state of shock! They quickly tried to figure out what hit them - got scared to no end doing…

SMEs Access to Capital Markets in India

Apr 25, 2017

It took almost a decade since the SME Exchange has been formalised to see 60 floats in a month. Still the total number of listings on the SME bourses is not something that the growing Indian…

MSE Credit Supply Shrinks

Jan 27, 2017

Commercial Banks proved sweet nothings in their offerings to the MSEs while a myriad of their loan products focused on medium enterprises or the mid-corporate sector.

Manufacturing MSEs going by RBI November 2016 data reveals that…

Impact of Enhanced Standards for Credit Rating Agencies on SMEs

Jan 13, 2017

The year 2015 saw a sharp downgrade in the credit rating of Amtek Auto leading to redemption crisis in J P Morgan Asset Management Company. The rating agencies came in for a lot of criticism. Year…

Fake in India

Dec 22, 2016

The “Make in India “ lion continues to be shackled.

The three shackles of cost, complexity and corruption hold a vice like grip. All he can do, is roar.

The cost of finance (the bloodline of…

Modi and Trump

Nov 26, 2016

This government is indeed very business friendly, While Mr Trump is said to be planning to go back on globalisation in the interest of creating more jobs, Mr Modi is thinking of raising bars against imports…

It is time to Demonitise

Nov 09, 2016

“Not all the perfumes of Arabia will sweeten this little hand” (Shakespeare from ‘Meckbeth’)

The rate cuts of 2010 from the RBI did not influence the prices of food articles in particular and others in general,…

Innovation and the enabling ecosystem for SMEs

Oct 27, 2016

Today we are witness to some of the most sincere efforts by Governments, right at the top to improve the ecosystem of start-up and innovation ecosystem. These have largely managed to inject a lot of positivity…