-Down to Earth The past three decades have seen stagnation in acreage, production and productivity of pulses across the country due to a bevy of reasons that include availability of more profitable crops The primary reason behind India’s domestic shortage in pulses is stagnation of production over the past five decades. Overcoming the Pulses Crisis, a 2010 report by the Confederation of Indian Industry, states the production of pulses grew only by...
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A lesson from China on gig workers’ rights -Sowmiya Ashok
-The Hindu The swell of public opinion in China has enabled government regulation and change in company policy On September 20, 2021, the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers, on behalf of gig workers, filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court demanding that the Union government provide succour to workers affected by the pandemic. The petition has asked for ‘gig workers’ and ‘platform workers’ to be declared as ‘unorganised workers’...
More »No resistance or debate on laws that want accused to prove innocence, not the state the guilt -Aakar Patel
-National Herald Gujarat Police failed to prove that a man served beef to his guests, because Food had already been consumed. Yet, a Gujarat court sent him to jail because he couldn't prove that he hadn't served beef India follows the Common Law system introduced to it by Great Britain. However, it has introduced innovations as an independent nation, and one of these is to reverse burden of proof. In several criminal...
More »NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands higher wages, more working days, employee insurance in letter to PM
-National Herald It has requested Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 days annually for each job card holding individual Flagging issues being faced by crores of MGNREGA workers, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has requested the Union government to notify a wage rate of Rs 600 per day for NREGA workers and allocation of work for 150 days annually...
More »Sri Lanka’s organic farming crisis: Learning from failures -Gurudas Nulkar
-Down to Earth Sri Lanka has found itself in an economic crisis in pursuit of producing 100% organic Food ‘Lankan Food crisis shows perils of organic farming’. This was the headline of a column by Indian economist Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar column published in a national daily recently. Aiyar’s article analysed the Sri Lankan Food crisis, which has been triggered by the President’s recent decision to shift from chemical to organic farming. While the...
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