-The Hindu India’s poor AOI is a stark reminder of the need to attain a key sustainable development goal of higher agri-growth While the overall budgetary allocation towards the agricultural sector has marginally increased by 4.4% in the Union budget 2022-23, the rate of increase is lower than the current inflation rate of 5.5%-6%. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) report for 2001 to 2019 shows that,...
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A cutback in PMFBY funding may further affect the timely release of compensation for crop failures
On February 18, 2016, India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. After its launch, the PMFBY was implemented by 21 states during kharif 2016, whereas in rabi 2016-17, 23 states and 2 UTs implemented the same. The Central Government launched the PMFBY in the kharif season of 2016 with the intention to help farmers cope with crop losses because of unseasonal and extreme weather....
More »Sanjeev Sanyal, principal economic advisor, interviewed by Kamalika Ghosh (OutlookIndia.com)
-OutlookIndia.com The principal economic advisor is confident of achieving GDP growth promised by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the budget but is also cautious that some external factors can derail the projections Automobiles and two-wheelers are seeing muted sales not because of a low-demand situation afflicting the sector, but because there is a supply-side issue about chips, principal economic advisor to the government Sanjeev Sanyal told Outlook Business. He also said that...
More »Bengal seeks 8 crore more mandays under 100-days’ job scheme -Snehamoy Chakraborty
-The Telegraph CM Mamata Banerjee also expressed her concern over the curtailment of allotment for the MGNREGA scheme during an administrative review meeting in Calcutta Bolpur (Birbhum): The Mamata Banerjee government has written to the Centre with a plea to approve 8 crore more mandays under the 100-days’ job scheme for Bengal in the current fiscal after the state achieved its approved labour budget of 27 crore mandays. “The Centre has so far...
More »A Budget Whose Silences are Ominous -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The people are thus facing increasingly hard times, but in the bland vision of the Modi government, there is no cognisance of it. However, that itself is ominous because when the balance of payments becomes unmanageable, the Modi government will run to the IMF to ask for a rescue package. No budget in recent memory has been presented at a time when the economy is in such dire straits: unemployment is...
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