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Sunday, August 24 1997
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UF showing continues to dismay industry![[Details]](/icons/bullet.gif){kind=icon}
It's the classic case of too little and too late. The United Front's (UF) ability to finally cobble a consensus on the hike in petroleum prices is certainly welcome in view of the yawning oil pool deficit, but investors are still far from convinced about the Government's credibility.
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Memorials are not enough
Passing trains periodically slice through Chauri Chaura, their ululations dying only in the distance. It is the railway line that has put some weight on the bare bones of this village-town (more village than town), which lies 20 km from the eastern Uttar Pradesh town of Gorakhpur on the way to Deoria. It is the railway line that has brought it some grain, some trade.
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Banking on "gentlemen" officers
Sir Terence Heiser, who retired as permanent secretary in the Department of Environment in 1992, joined the board of Wessex Water in 1993. Wessex Water was one of many publicly owned water supply companies that the Department of Environment helped privatise in 1989.
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The Group
