-Hindustan Times Many years ago, Jagdish Bhagwati, a very distinguished economist long before he became one of the patron saints of the NDA, published an important paper on what he called Directly Unproductive Activities or DUP. These bore a close relation to what his friend and well-known South Asia scholar, Anne Krueger, had called rent-seeking activities in some slightly earlier work. Both made the important point that the social cost of...
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Delhi's organic farming shocker: Data a load of manure
-India Today Believe it or not, almost 70 per cent of the national Capital was used for organic farming in 2011-2012, according to National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF), which comes under the Ministry of Agriculture. While the total geographical area of Delhi is 1.48 lakh hectares, NPOF data shows 100238.74 hectares (almost twice the size of Mumbai) was used for organic farming during that period. What smacks of data fudging and...
More »Tribunal relief for Meghalaya miners -Andrew W Lyngdoh
-The Telegraph Shillong: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today allowed transportation of coal from Meghalaya while refusing to lift the interim ban on the mining of the "black diamond". After a series of hearings, the tribunal's principal bench provided partial relief to coal miners by permitting them to pay royalty on the extracted coal within 21 days from today. Transportation of the mineral would carry on until May 31, the bench ruled. "The...
More »India’s wheat area damaged from hail, potentially curbing supply -Pratik Parija and Prabhudatta Mishra
-Livemint.com About 12.1 million hectares of the 30.6 million hectares of wheat planted was damaged from the hail and rain on 1 March to 18 March New Delhi: India's wheat crop may be smaller than the record forecast by the government after hailstorm this month damaged planted areas. About 12.1 million hectares of the 30.6 million hectares of wheat planted was damaged from the hail and rain on 1 March to 18...
More »All-women police stations non-existent in most police stations -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government last week approved 33% reservation for women in police forces of all union territories, including Delhi, citing difficulties faced by women complainants to approach the male-dominated police force. However, most union territories, including Delhi, do not even have a single women's police station even though the country has 518 of them. According to data collected by Bureau of Police Research and Development,...
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