In Maharashtra, where issues hurl themselves at you, the Opposition failed to mount a strong campaign on a single one of them. The front rows of the Mumbai-Nagpur flight are usually the province of the political class: MLAs to MPs, ministers and fixers. This time, though, quite a few of the occupants were celebrities: television and film stars, major and minor, middling and mediocre. It wasn’t the T-20 cricket match in...
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Expand and re-orient NREGA by PS Appu
The recession is a promising moment to expand NREGA with greater emphasis on building social capital in a big way. Soon after assuming office, the first UPA government took an impressive step for the alleviation of rural poverty by launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. It was, indeed, a wise move to insulate the programme from the vicissitudes of electoral politics by enacting the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
More »बाढ़ के पानी में भोजन का अधिकार विधेयक
आंध्रप्रदेश, कर्नाटक और महाराष्ट्र में जारी बाढ़ से लाखों की तादाद में ग्रामीण गरीबी रेखा से नीचे आ गए हैं। बाढ़ की विभीषिका तो थमने का नाम नहीं ले रही है लेकिन इस विभीषिका से, गरीबी रेखा से नीचे रहने वाले परिवारों की गणना के लिए जो मानक प्रस्तावित भोजन का अधिकार विधेयक के संकल्प पत्र में सुझाये गए हैं, उनकी पोल जरुर खुल गई है। अकेले आंध्रप्रदेश और कर्नाटक...
More »Food inflation could get worse
NEW DELHI: Floods that have ravaged parts of southern and western India is likely to hit the grain production in the country, leading to higher prices of essential commodities such as rice, pulses, jowar, bajra and certain category of vegetables. While the extent of the damage caused by the sudden burst of floods in Karnataka, Andhra, Maharashtra and Goa is yet to be assessed, the governments at the Centre and...
More »Films chart despair of India's farm suicides by Prachi Pinglay
The film industry is tackling the controversial issue of farmer suicides After drinking pesticide out of sheer desperation, poverty-stricken farmer Nandu collapsed. He did this on screen in front of an audience at a packed multiplex cinema, which issued a collective gasp. Nandu is just a character in a recent Indian film about farmer suicides. But his tragic fate has been a reality for thousands of farmers across India. For the first...
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