<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Vinay K. Srivastava"><item><title>DEVELOPING MODEL VILLAGE TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S QUALITY OF LIFE</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/developing-model-village-to-improve-peoples-quality-of-life/</link><pubDate>August 27, 2021, 6:08 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DEVELOPING-MODEL-VILLAGE-TO-IMPROVE-PEOPLES-QUALITY-OF-LIFE-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>India is a country of villages. Seventy percent of its population resides in 6.5 lakh villages. The main source of employment for the rural people is agriculture and those who do not have land, either have joined agriculture as landless labourers ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Report card: 30 years of reforms in CPSUs</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/developing-model-village-to-improve-peoples-quality-of-life/</link><pubDate>August 27, 2021, 6:08 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DEVELOPING-MODEL-VILLAGE-TO-IMPROVE-PEOPLES-QUALITY-OF-LIFE-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The country was in a deep fiscal crisis and facing a very difficult balance of payment (BoP) situation during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The acute fall in the BoP led to an expeditious depletion of forex reserves. It declined to Rs 3142 ﻿cror...</excerpt></item></author></feed>