When one of the three farm laws i.e., The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 was enacted last year, it was argued by its proponents that the legislation would allow the farmers to sell their produce (and the traders to purchase that produce) outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee-APMC mandis after crop harvesting. In a way, that particular piece of legislation was enacted to end the...

-The New Indian Express A confrontation is brewing in Punjab after the Centre, for the FIRst time, capped paddy procurement from the state at 170 lakh metric tonnes.  CHANDIGARH: A confrontation is brewing in Punjab after the Centre, for the FIRst time, capped paddy procurement from the state at 170 lakh metric tonnes. The Centre has also made it clear that it will not bear any responsibility for extra paddy arriving at...

-The Hindu The Government must make haste to prevent a killer disease that claims thousands of workers’ lives each year Long before COVID-19 hit, countless workers engaged in mines, construction and factories in India were silently dying of exposure to dust, utmost exploitation and apathy. They continue to do so. Rajasthan’s pioneering model One State — Rajasthan — with the top-most share of over 17% in value of mineral production in the country and...

-The New Indian Express The Kerala assembly on Tuesday passed the bill that gives legal validity to the welfare scheme for the workers of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.  THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Assembly on Tuesday passed the bill that gives legal validity to the welfare scheme for the workers of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.  The Kerala Employment Guarantee Workers’ Welfare  Fund bill was unanimously passed by the assembly.  The...

-TheWire.in Researchers from the Global South represent the key stakeholders in development policies yet a culture of exclusion in the field of development economics seems to leave them out of the conversation. The majority of research conducted on development and development policies in the Global South is done by researchers from the Global North, a recent research article published in the journal Applied Economic Letters has found. The research article, titled, ‘Underrepresentation of...