-The Times of India BHOPAL: Challenging the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which are used during polling to verify that the vote cast by a person goes to the correct candidate, would land a person in jail, if it is found that the machine is working fine. The issue has come to light as the election commission is planning to make the people in MP aware of the machine...
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Uneven Mandi tax adds to GST burden -Madhvi Sally
-The Economic Times Even as the dust kicked up by the Goods and Services tax is yet to settle, traders and companies have to face another conundrum an uneven mandi tax. So wide is the discrepancy that a company procuring grain had to pay 6 per cent tax in Punjab, 4 per cent in Haryana and 0.2 per cent in Madhya Pradesh. Industry says this will create an imbalance in the interstate...
More »The Dynamics of 'Sahucars' and Farmers in Maharashtra's Villages -Parth MN
-TheWire.in PRIvate moneylenders are a major source of loans across the region, and with the collapse of banking in rural areas, their role has only grown. Baliram Kadpe is critical of the Maharashtra government. “Farmers do not get the minimum support PRIce [for their crops, from the state],” he says with concern. “And it is tedious for them to acquire crop loans.” Kadpe believes if the state ensures that farmers have access...
More »Rural distress may lessen even as agriculture growth may stay flat -Sandip Das and Banikinkar Pattanayak
-The Financial Express The distress in rural India on account of a glut-induced crash in PRIces of farm commodities will likely alleviate soon as PRIces tend to look up, but statistical factors will keep farm-sector growth subdued in the short-term. A crash in PRIces kept growth in nominal gross value added (GVA) for the agriculture and allied sector above the expansion in real term in Q1FY18 for the first time in five...
More »Onion PRIces fall 35% after I-T raids on Nashik traders
-The Times of India NASHIK: The average wholesale onion PRIce fell by 35% at the country's largest wholesale onion market at the Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) on Thursday after the income tax department carried out surveys and searches in the offices, godowns and homes of seven onion traders in Nashik district of Maharashtra. After the sudden crash in wholesale onion PRIces, farmers stopped the auction at Lasalgaon and did...
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