-Financial Express The credit outstanding to industry stood at Rs 32.4 trillion as of September 23, according to the data. The banking sector lending to industry has picked up, LED by disbursals to the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector. Bank credit to industry improved 12.6% year-on-year in September, compared to a muted 1.7% growth in the same month last year, data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed. Banks’...
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How do voters assess the Gujarat government? -Vibha Attri and Vanshika Sharma
-The Hindu While the BJP-LED State government is rated positively, there is not a great deal of endorsement for its famed development record The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government in Gujarat in 1995. Since then, it has more or less remained in power. Now, it is seeking yet another term. The Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) survey sought to gauge public opinion in Gujarat on the government’s performance...
More »Deliberative democracy -Namrata Jeph and Rajesh Ranjan
-The Telegraph Citizens’ participation in policy-making is an important factor in assessing the quality of democracy Within five days of the announcement of Agnipath, the scheme had been amended 10 times, raising the larger question concerning consultation in policy-making. The Bharatiya Janata Party-LED National Democratic Alliance government has taken a number of policy decisions without public consultation — from demonetisation, which saw 60 changes in 43 days, to GST, which has been...
More »The ‘tiger widows’ of Sundarbans: Caught between the jungle and the rising sea -Uzmi Athar
-PTI/ ThePrint.in The ‘tiger widows’ of Sundarbans: Caught between the jungle and the rising sea Sundarbans: With both his sons jobless and money running out, Biswajit Mistry left home one summer morning to venture deep into the dense jungles of the Sundarbans in search of raw honey that would fetch a better price. His body was recovered two days later, mauLED and bearing unmistakable signs of a tiger attack. More than a year...
More »UP: Kushinagar Sugarcane Farmers Demand Rs 44 Crore Dues -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in The farmers are also demanding free electricity for irrigation and grants for borewells, tubewells, ponds and tanks, as promised by BJP during the last Assembly election. Lucknow: Sugarcane farmers of Kaptanganj sugar mill, in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and surrounding villages have been protesting outside the tehsil under the banner of multiple unions demanding payment of around Rs 44 crore due for the ongoing crushing season for almost two...
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