-Livemint.com Unless economic misery is alleviated soon, the Narendra Modi-led BJP may have to face angry voters in 2019 general elections New Delhi: A year back, there seemed to be no stopping Narendra Modi. After a landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh elections, the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seemed to have acquired an aura of invincibility. But that aura has diminished somewhat over the past few months as anti-incumbency has grown....
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MP Agriculture Sector Growth Slips by 1.61%, Says MP Economic Survey -Vivek Trivedi
-News18.com Surprisingly, production of meat which stood at 59 lakh metric tonnes in 2015-16 surged to 79 metric tonnes in 2016-17. The production of eggs too went up in the financial year 2016-17. Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government might be listing agriculture among its topmost priories but the Growth Rate in farm sector has gone down by 1.61% for the financial year 2017-18, according to the Madhya Pradesh Economic Survey report which was...
More »The rising agrarian distress in India -Jayati Ghosh
-Livemint.com To stabilize crop prices and make them remunerative, the Swaminathan Commission proposed significant improvements in the implementation of MSPs Across the country, farmers are furious—and rightfully so. Four years ago, they helped bring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power, believing Narendra Modi’s claims that they would no longer suffer official neglect. But since then, conditions in agriculture have got worse. Earlier problems have worsened as farm incomes have been squeezed...
More »Tractor industry on course to register highest-ever domestic sales in FY-18 -G Balachandar
-The Hindu Business Line Good kharif crop, govt thrust on agri and rural segments boost sector’s Q3 performance Chennai: Encouraged by the continuing momentum in sales, the tractor industry hopes to end the current fiscal with highest-ever domestic volumes close to 6.8 lakh units. The industry’s previous highest domestic number was in 2013-14 when domestic sales stood at 6.34 lakh units. Tractor companies and industry analysts project a Growth Rate of 17-18 per cent...
More »Job Growth Plummets, Says New Govt. Report -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Manufacturing sector loses 87,000 jobs in Apr-Jul 2017. The latest Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) Report released by the govt.’s Labour Bureau reveals that just 64,000 jobs were added in eight selected sectors during April-July 2017 down by 65% compared to the previous quarter. Compared to the base level estimate of total employment of 205.22 lakh as on 1 April 2016, the Indian economy has added 4.8 lakh jobs in 15...
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