-The Hindu Mahila Kisan Sansad brings together participants from all walks of life. Among those who were members of the Mahila Kisan Sansad on Monday were an Assistant Professor from Punjab, wife of an Army officer and a homemaker who occasionally works towards women empowerment in her village in Haryana. Amandeep Kaur Sandhu (32), Assistant Professor at a college in village Baba Sang Dhesian, said back home, people used to believe that women...
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Women Farmers hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; pass resolution demanding 33 per cent representation in Parliament
-The Tribune Actress-activist Gul Panag also attends the ‘sansad’ Gender lines blurred and traditional roles reversed ever so often as men and women joined hands to share responsibilities in the farm, at home and at protest sites to keep up the prolonged fight against three agri laws, women Farmers said here on Monday. Gathered for an all-woman Kisan Sansad (Farmers' parliament), they demanded the repeal of the Essential Services Commodities Amendment Act, and...
More »During pandemic, only 20 per cent of Farmers under PM-Kisan had access to formal credit -Ashlin Mathew
-National Herald Of 10.5 crore Farmers covered under PM-Kisan, only 2.18 crore Farmers received Kisan Credit Card. This means most small, marginal and landless Farmers continued to struggle throughout the pandemic During the period of severe economic crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic, only 20 per cent of Farmers under PM- Kisan have had access to formal credit. Of the 10.5 crore Farmers covered under PM-Kisan, only 2.18 crore Farmers have been issued...
More »How to Cage a Protest: Notes From Day One of the Kisan Sansad -Indra Shekhar Singh
-TheWire.in A little surprised at the security measures, a farmer from Karnataka said the Jantar Mantar protest site seemed 'Emergency-esque' and resembled the border with Pakistan. New Delhi: It was about noon, when the brown dogs began to growl. Long hours of waiting, three “security checks” and a sultry sun made mediapersons slightly edgy, but the ‘Kisan Sansad’ was not in session yet. My eyes drifted to the red sundial across the...
More »The huge cost of producing cheap food -Devinder Sharma
-The Tribune The focus on producing surplus and cheap food threatens the survival of the country’s smaller farms, Prince Charles said, adding that if these farms disappear, ‘it will rip the heart out of the British countryside.’ The warning has been sounded at a time when a global business data platform estimates the number of employed and self-employed Farmers in the UK to have come down to just 1.07 lakh. IN a...
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