-Newslaundry.com The election season seems to have skipped adivasis in the state that has recorded 19 deaths from starvation since 2017. On New Year’s Eve, Baghiya Birijiya lost her mother Budhni Birijiyan to hunger, cold, and extreme poverty in Latehar, one of India’s poorest districts. The family had so few means that they could not cremate the 80-year-old’s body for two days, until public pressure led the administration to intervene to provide...
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PM Kisan scheme: 'Centre has paid farmers around Rs. 10,500 cr so far'
-PTI New Delhi: Around 3.10 crore small farmers have so far received the first tranche of Rs. 2,000 each under the PM-Kisan scheme and 2.10 crore peasants have got the second instalment as well, costing Rs. 10,500 crore to the exchequer, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said Tuesday. The government had announced that 12 crore farmers would be covered under the the Rs. 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme. Each...
More »An employment-oriented economic policy -Pulapre Balakrishnan
-The Hindu In the heated debate on jobs, the crucial link between macroeconomic policy and unemployment has not been flagged Innumerable tasks with respect to the economy await the winner of the parliamentary elections now under way, but two may be mentioned and they are connected. The first is to review the conduct of macroeconomic policy. Though it must come across as arcane, this is an element of public policy that makes...
More »'PM KISAN scheme to benefit just 38% farmers till polls conclude' -Saurabh Katkurwar
-IANS New Delhi: The ambitious PM-KISAN scheme that aims to provide Rs 6,000 annually to small and marginal farmers will reach only 38 per cent of the intended beneficiaries by the end of ongoing Lok sabha polls, thanks to tardy furnishing of information by the states, lack of digitised land records and the election Model Code of Conduct being in force, according to government officials involved in its implementation. The scheme, announced...
More »In UP leather belt that votes today, closed tanneries cast shadow -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express 4 lakh jobs, Rs 4,000-cr per month at stake; Kanpur, Unnao count losses. Kanpur, Unnao: Rizwan Nadri is a self-proclaimed Narendra Modi bhakt. “I credit his government at the Centre for approving a 20 million-litres-per-day (MLD) common effluent treatment plant (CETP), which will give us a new lease of life,” states this 34-year-old owner of Nadri Tanning Industries. His three tanneries are among the 241 in Kanpur’s Jajmau leather...
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