-Down to Earth While sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh owe about Rs 12,500 crore to farmers, the government’s measures were directed mostly towards tackling current price crash In a knee-jerk reaction to the defeat in Kairana by-elections, the Narendra Modi government, on Wednesday, took a slew of policy decisions related to sugarcane industry. The plight of sugarcane farmers was a big issue during the recently concluded by-elections in this town in...
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Centre mulls law to check arbitrary school-fee hikes -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre is planning to bring in a regulation to check arbitrary fee hikes by private schools. The move comes after the success of the Uttar Pradesh Government's legislation, brought in this year, to regulate fees charged by private schools, including minority ones, in the state. According to a senior official, the Centre is consulting all stakeholders and trying to build a consensus before the move...
More »Farmers are not getting a fair price -Vikas Vasudeva
-The Hindu Why the drop in rates? Garlic has been the latest casualty of the price crash in the vegetable market after poor returns of tomato and potato crops forced many farmers to abandon their produce owing to a bumper output in recent days. The miseries of financially distressed farmers seem far from over even as they continue to demand waiver of farm loans and remunerative prices for their produce through several...
More »Jharkhand: 58-yr-old woman allegedly dies of starvation, son says no food at home for three days
-The Indian Express The son said that after his father's death in 2010, the little produce from a small farm with the family lasted barely two-to-three months. Officials are also probing as to why the woman, or any other member of her family, was reportedly not getting any other government benefits. Ranchi: A 58-year-old woman allegedly died of starvation at a village under Dumri Block of Giridih district in Jharkhand. District officials...
More »A farmer death, and the story of a Baghpat mill -Sourav Roy Barman
-The Indian Express While mills are required, by law, to pay the SAP amount within 14 days of cane purchase, the Malakpur factory has till date disbursed a mere Rs 32 crore. That amounts to less than 7 per cent of what is due to its 34,000-odd farmers. Baghpat (U.P.): On the road to the sugar mill in Malakpur, the number of flies first multiply, then quadruply. It’s late May and the...
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