The current perception that cash transfers can replace public provision of basic goods and services and become a catch-all solution for poverty reduction is false. Where cash transfers have helped to reduce poverty, they have added to public provision, not replaced it. For crucial items like food, direct provision protects poor consumers from rising prices and is part of a broader strategy to ensure domestic supply. Problems like targeting errors...
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Cash for kerosene instead of subsidy
-PTI Delhi may soon become the first city in the country to give cash instead of subsidized kerosene to BPL families, a move aimed at controlling widespread pilferage of the fuel. As per the proposal put forth by chief minister Sheila Dikshit, cash equivalent of the monthly kerosene subsidy will be directly transferred to the bank account of the female head of the family. A BPL family is likely to...
More »Slaving for their dowry by Kalpana Sharma
How the global garment industry is using regressive customs in Tamil Nadu, enabling it to exploit young women workers… Behind the smiling exterior of a fast-growing economy lie the tears and tragedies of women like these workers. Girls. Dowry. The two go together. No matter what you do to separate them, they somehow get conjoined, like twins that have remained connected in one body. We are told this is one of the...
More »Silk farmers reel as cocoon prices go into freefall by Deepa Kurup
Import duty on raw silk has been cut from 30 to 5 per cent The mood is grim at the Government Cocoon Market in Ramanagaram. The auction of silk cocoons is on; however, no silk reeler is willing to pay more than Rs. 110 for a kg. At this rate, the loss incurred by each farmer is a heartbreaking Rs. 60 a kg. Double whammy The loss is greater and the risk more...
More »Despite court order, Noida farmers yet to get reviewed damages by Purusharth Aradhak
They may not be in news like their counterparts in Bhatta-Parsaul, but the fight of farmers in Noida against the satellite city Authorityand the UP government is nothing new. It's been on since 1976 when land was acquired for the first time to lay the foundation stone of Noida. And this fight hasn't been completely futile. On July 30, 2010, Allahabad high court directed the Noida Authority to pay reviewed...
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