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Land rights for refugee families -Pranesh Sarkar

-The Telegraph The move is likely to settle the citizenship problem of lakhs of people who crossed over to Bengal from neighbouring Bangladesh Calcutta: The Mamata Banerjee government has started regularising refugee colonies on central government Land by offering freehold rights to those living on the plots for more than 40 years. The move is likely to settle the citizenship problem of lakhs of people who crossed over to Bengal from neighbouring Bangladesh. During...

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Workers returning to Delhi post-lockdown stare at joblessness -Ashok Kumar Soibam and Rocky Singh

-The Hindu Several workers returning to Gurugram and Delhi from their home towns after the lockdown discover their employers have already filled their positions Vijay Mishra, a chhole-poori vendor on Jharsa Road in Gurugram, is the odd man out among a row of fruit sellers. The 38-year-old makes ₹200-₹300 daily, not even half of what he used to earn at his job in Maruti Suzuki India Limited before the lockdown. Like thousands of...

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India's Small Schools are Failing to Provide Equal Education to Rural Children -Tanoj Meshram

-News18.com The new National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020 hereafter) has rekindled the debate on the various kinds of problems in Indian education. One of the problems which has bothered me is the need for reforms in rural government elementary schools, more specifically the need for addressing the problem of sub-optimal schooling experiences and poor learning outcomes of poor rural children. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 brought out...

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Punjab farmers have fed country since the Green Revolution, now it must stand by us -Raakhi Jagga

-The Indian Express Participating in indefinite dharnas at petrol pumps, near toll plazas, even on rail tracks, elderly farmers tell The Indian Express that age is just a number. A 94-year-old farmer leader cycles 5 km to reach the dharna spot, an 83-year-old says, ‘looking at our united struggle…I think, I will live more’. Their wrinkled faces bear scars of decades spent toiling on fields, but the zeal is intact. Participating in...

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Three Farm Bills and India’s Rural Economy -Vijay Jawandhiya and Ajay Dandekar

-TheWire.in With low levels of farmers' income and a lack of assured price mechanism, what impact will the three farm bills have in the long term on India's agrarian economy. Here's an analysis. Last week, the Union government passed three bills to replace the three ordinances that were enacted during the COVID-19 lockdown. These three bills, expected to bring revolutionary changes to agrarian context and help double farmers’ incomes are: The Farmers’...

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