-Hindustan Times More and more farmers are falling into debt trap because farming is no longer profitable and big-ticket infrastructure projects are taking away their lands. Nasik: Shantaram Waghchowre’s worries are multiplying. Already hit by plunging prices for the crops he grows in his five-acre family farm in Maharashtra’s Pimpalgaon Dukre village of Nasik district, he is now staring at abject penury. The state government is set to acquire 50,000 acres of land...
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Of songs and seeds: This MP man is on a mission to save tradition, local crops -Neeraj Santoshi
-Hindustan Times Madhya Pradesh’s Babulal Dahiya is a collector of folk songs and seeds and has sown 110 varieties of rice to preserve them. Bhopal: He is a collector of folk songs and seeds. And it was while collecting Bagheli folklore, this 72-year-old farmer cum Bagheli poet realized that saving folk songs and sayings won’t mean much if the local crop varieties, which repeatedly crop up in the folk literature, are...
More »No Jobs, And Now No Skills -Vineet John Samuel
-HuffingtonPost.in What the dissolving of Skill India’s ambitious targets says about India’s tryst with jobless growth. The recent figures released by the Labour Bureau's Quarterly Economic Survey have pointed to a rather dangerous trend in terms of employment for the country. According to the latest government data, job creation for the nine months running up to December 2016 for the eight labour-intensive sectors of the economy was at an abysmally low 2.31...
More »GST Is Proving to Be a Procedural Nightmare for Small Service Providers and Traders -MK Venu
-TheWire.in Most of the outreach efforts of the finance ministry to explain and create awareness about the GST have been with the bigger industry players. It is becoming increasingly clear that that neither the Centre nor states are adequately prepared to launch the goods and services tax (GST) on July 1. The sheer multiplicity of taxes, as also different tax slabs for the same commodity or service, is a problem which has...
More »For now, rains may skip central India: IMD -Neha Madaan
-The Times of India PUNE: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has found the behaviour of the monsoon this year to be "peculiar", saying this may have been responsible for the delayed onset over central India. "This behaviour of the monsoon is peculiar and may put weather forecasters in a spot while declaring the onset in various parts of the country," an IMD official said. The official, referring to the IMD's latest Operational Extended...
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