-The Hindu Business Line Farmers want Govt to begin purchasing immediately Bengaluru: As the new kharif moong (green gram) hits the markets in North Karnataka, prices of the pulses crop are trading lower at around Rs.5,100 a quintal, much lower than the minimum support price of Rs.6,975 announced by the Centre. In fact, the prevailing prices in the State are also lower than last year’s support price of Rs.5,575/quintal, growers said, while demanding...
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The 'c' in Swachh Bharat is caste and Modi needs to address it -Pritha Chatterjee
-ThePrint.in Manual scavenging is a reality and Dalit women, particularly, will be forced to shoulder the burden of cleaning dry pits. Prime Minister Narendra Modi frequently tweets appreciation for on-ground workers of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA). One such widely shared post was an image of the secretary in the ministry of drinking water and sanitation, Parameswaran Iyer, going down a double-pit toilet in a rural home and cleaning it. He was lauded...
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-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Raising farm income could well be the agenda for 2019 general elections and well aware of this is the Narendra Modi Government, which is leaving no stone unturned to lure this vote bank. Navigating this agenda for the Government is Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. Aware of the challenges of the price sensitive market, Singh said, “agriculture markets cannot be...
More »Muzaffarnagar DM Opposes Yogi Govt, Says Can't Withdraw Riot Cases Due to Administrative Reasons -Qazi Faraz Ahmad
-News18.com In March this year, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP Government in Uttar Pradesh had initiated the process to withdraw 131 cases related to the riots in 2013. Lucknow (U.P.): The Muzaffarnagar district administration in its report to the Government has advised that the withdrawal of 113 cases related to Muzzaffarnagar and Shamli riots would not be advisable on an administrative level. In March this year, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP Government in Uttar Pradesh...
More »Farmer producer organisations need their very own Amul -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Instead of encouraging them on paper, the Government has to create a few model FPOs in the country and provide institutional support to them The Narendra Modi-led Government has been tirelessly claiming that it would double farmers’ income by 2022. There is a lot of evidence to show that in the pursuance of this target, the income of farmers has not increased, but has rather stalled or decreased. Consequently,...
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