The Diesel Disruption in India

Date : June 10, 2019

The recent decision by Maruti Suzuki, which has a 51 per cent market share, to stop producing and selling diesel cars from April 2020 onwards represents a very significant inflexion point in an another wise hidebound industry.This decision is directly linked to the incremental cost implications of the introduction of BSVI fuel standards in April 2020. However, an important precondition has been t...

The Auto Industry and the Public Good

Date : May 9, 2017

Let me start with two quotes from Peter Drucker: “It is management’s public responsibility to make whatever is genuinely in the public good become the enterprise’s own self-interest.” “The proper social responsibility of business is to tame the dragon – that is, to turn a social problem into economic opportunity and economic benefit, into productive capacity, into human competenc...

The Cleaning of the Cook Stove

Date : April 4, 2017

Recent press reports indicate some very welcome trends in cleaning up the cooking fuel being used. State run oil companies have reported signing up 30 million cooking gas consumers in 2016-17, with 2/3 of them from poorer families. In the last three years, the number of active LPG consumers have gone up by 58 million from 140 million in 2014 to 198 million in 2017. This means that 71% of Indian...