With food prices showing no signs of abating and the impact of the fuel price hike in the latest budget making its presence felt, inflation moved fast towards the double-digit mark, touching 9.89 per cent in February, the highest in 16 months. The wholesale price-based inflation stood at 8.56 per cent in January. This could well cross the double-digit mark in March, experts said. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had earlier said the...
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Train women for better crop, says report by Simantik Dowerah
Even as women agriculturalists form more than half of the total global population involved in farming it is actually the men folk who continue to receive better training leaving the other gender behind and poverty index screwed up, claimed a report released on Thursday. The report Training for Rural Development: agriculture and Enterprise Skills for Women by City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development said developing countries can tackle poverty...
More »Danger of inflation by CP Chandrasekhar
WELL before Budget 2010-11 was presented, inflation had emerged as the principal economic problem in the country. With food-price inflation running at close to 20 per cent, even the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre had been forced to recognise it as a problem that deserved as much attention as the objective of achieving a 9 or 10 per cent rate of growth, if not more. In fact,...
More »Development package still eludes Kambalapalli victims by KV Subramanya and Vishwa Kundapura
Even a decade after the horrific episode in which seven Dalits were burnt alive by “caste” Hindus in Kambalapalli village of Chintamani taluk in the then undivided Kolar district, 66 families of the victims are still struggling to lead a dignified life. The State Government, which relocated the 66 Dalit families at a new hamlet called Mini-Kambalapalli on the outskirts of Chintamani town, has not made good on its promises of...
More »Sericulture cluster to come up at Berigai by R Arivanantham
A sericulture cluster will be established at Berigai, near Hosur, with assistance from National Bank for agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). NABARD will give Rs. 46.94 lakh to the project - Rs. 36.14 lakh as grant and Rs. 10.80 lakh as soft loan. The concept of the project is “soil to silk”. This is the first sericulture cluster project in the state sanctioned by NABARD. The project would be implemented...
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