-The Business Standard Govt controls will raise prices of pulses and oilseeds The Food and consumer affairs ministry has proposed that stockholding limits on pulses and edible oils be retained for another year beyond October. In addition, it wants these curbs extended to rice, too. This is misguided, and will cause more problems than it wants to resolve. Instead of controlling prices, as is intended, these restrictions on trade will instead...
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West Bengal, Assam fail to avail BGREI funds- Sutanuka Ghosal & Bikash Singh
-The Economic Times KOLKATA | GUWAHATI: West Bengal and Assam have failed to avail funds under Bringing Green Revolution to the Eastern India (BGREI) for FY13. In the Union Budget 2012-13, the Centre has allotted Rs 1,000 crore for seven states in the eastern region under the BGREI scheme. While West Bengal has failed to send the statement of expenditure to avail the BGREI fund, Assam, on the other hand, has taken...
More »Govt looks at salary for homemakers from husbands
-PTI Homemakers may soon start getting monthly salaries from their husbands with the government mulling a proposal which would make it mandatory for men to share a certain percentage of their income with their wives who stay back at home and do household chores. The proposal is being considered by Women and Child Development Ministry for the socio-economic empowerment of homemakers. “We have conducted a survey on this theme and are planning to...
More »The Food crisis and India -CP Chandrasekhar
-The Hindu The World Bank has joined the chorus warning the world of an impending Food crisis with damaging Food price inflation. In its late-August edition of its Food Price Watch the Bank reported that global prices for Food as reflected by its Food Price Index rose 10 per cent in July 2012 alone. The prices of staples such as corn and soya bean were at an all-time high that month,...
More »Vendors Bill introduced in Lok Sabha
-The Hindu The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood & Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012, was presented in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister of Urban Housing & Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja on Thursday. The Bill, which seeks to protect the rights of vendors and regulate their activity in public areas, has provisions for setting up vending zones where street vendors can sell their products without fear of being fined and...
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