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SC Seeks Centre, NGO’s Suggestions on Additional Safeguards If Char Dham Project Is Allowed

-PTI/ TheWire.in "We want to clarify that we have not made up our mind. We are open to the arguments. Whatever questions we are asking from the counsels is just to elicit better response," the bench said at the outset. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Union government and an NGO to suggest additional safeguards which it could impose on implementing agencies of the ambitious Char Dham project if...

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Five Years Since Demonetisation, Value Of Cash In Circulation Up 64% -Animesh Singh

-NDTV.com (with inputs from Agencies) The value and volume of bank notes in circulation had increased by 16.8 per cent and 7.2 per cent, respectively, during 2020-21 Though the government had launched its sudden move of demonetisation to cull out black money by weeding out currency notes worth 500 and 1,000 rupees denomination out of the system, on November 8, 2016, the notes in circulation in value terms have increased by 64...

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Poor quality pulses being sold under PDS in Kangra district -Ravinder Sood

-The Tribune Grains sold at fair price shops unfit for eating: Consumers Palampur: In the absence of any checks, ‘substandard’ foodgrain, especially pulses, are being sold at fair price shops in Kangra district. The pulses have high moisture content and are not fit for human consumption. The state government supplies subsidised foodgrain to consumers through over 4,500 outlets, including fair price shops. Sources say that the commodities being supplied at the fair price...

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Stable, long-term policies can turn the tide -A Amarender Reddy

-The Tribune A major hurdle to increasing exports is the decades-long neglect of export market infrastructure, which doesn’t meet the importing countries’ standards in terms of quality, quantity and other attributes such as food safety norms. India lacks an export-oriented strategy for agricultural commodities to establish itself as a regular supplier to international markets due to ad hoc measures such as a ban on exports or increase in tariffs off and...

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Debunking the myth of APMCs regulating agricultural marketing in a real world

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...

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