-Newsclick.in The Centre has on many occasions announced to double the farmer’s income but the reality on the ground paints a different picture. Suffocated under a Cycle of debt, some of them are allegedly taking the extreme step. Banda: Ram Ruchi was just 22 at the time of his death. A young farmer from Majra Pandin village in Banda district hanged himself to death on the ill-fated day of October 7, 2021....
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How the Code on Wages ‘legalises’ bonded labour -Soumya Sivakumar
-The Hindu It allows employers to extend unlimited advances to workers and charge an unspecified interest rate on such loans Debt bondage is a form of slavery that exists when a worker is induced to accept advances on wages, of a size, or at a level of interest, such that the advance will never be repaid. One of India’s hastily-passed Labour Codes — the Code on Wages, 2019 — gives legal sanction...
More »How Suburban, Rural Youth are Being Sucked Into Instant Loan Apps ‘Trap’ -Sashwata Saha
-Newsclick.in Harassment by loan recovery agents hired by these apps has led to at least 21 suicides across India between 2020 and 2021. Meghna Patel took her first loan early in 2020 from an app called FlyCash, whose ads she had been seeing on Facebook. It was a small amount. Just Rs 500. She had to repay Rs 550, two weeks later. The app even had a borrowing limit of Rs 1,000. Recently,...
More »Punjab: Paddy-wheat to timber, strategic shift to agroforestry pays dividends -Harpreet Bajwa
-The New Indian Express Punjab fares well in Union agriculture ministry scheme that focuses on enhancing income of marginal farmers and diversifying land use by paying attention to agro-forestry. PUNJAB: For five years, 13,039 farmers across Punjab have been into agroforestry, which has emerged as one of the viable alternatives for diversification from the paddy-wheat Cycle. In half a decade, 1.50 crore saplings have been planted, for which farmers have been given...
More »Ranchi shows how India’s biggest cycling lessons lie in its smaller cities -Swarna Dutt & Azra Khan
-Scroll.in About 50% of the households in the city owned a biCycle in 2011, as per the census data. It is a common sight to see cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles jostling for space on the narrow streets of small Indian cities. While there is a popular notion that these cities are trying to replicate the mobility pattern of bigger cities, data tells a different story. While global cities are aiming to increase Cycle...
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