-The Hindu Business Line 4 trade firms ask EU to delist India from list of nations recognised for organic item exports Four European Union (EU) organisations that deal with organic products have asked the EU Committee on Organic Production to stop the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) from giving accreditation to agencies certifying organic products exports from India to the Union. They have also asked the EU to delist...
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From diamond to dust: Five years after demonetisation in India -Aarefa Johari & Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
-Scroll.in The shock move devastated India’s informal economy. Many small businesses never recovered, as a supply chain at the intersection of diamonds and plastic shows. Up till 8.30 pm on the night of November 8, 2016, Muniram Yadav was blissfully unaware of the announcement that had shaken the country just thirty minutes before. He was engrossed in work, in a tiny workshop in Mumbai’s Sakinaka suburb, supervising four labourers as they carried...
More »Milk at Largest Private Dairy Company Turns Sour for Workers - Sruti MD
-Newsclick.in Hatsun Agro Products doesn’t pay minimum wages despite a turnover of Rs 5,500 crore and forces employees to resign. With a massive turnover of Rs 5,500 crore at the end of the 2021 fiscal, Hatsun Agro Products (HAP), the country’s largest private dairy products company, reported a massive 25% increase in net profit for the second quarter as against the same period in the previous year. Around the time the company planned...
More »Punjab’s problem of ‘plenty’ paddy -Harpreet Bajwa
-The New Indian Express A confrontation is brewing in Punjab after the Centre, for the first time, capped paddy procurement from the state at 170 lakh metric tonnes. CHANDIGARH: A confrontation is brewing in Punjab after the Centre, for the first time, capped paddy procurement from the state at 170 lakh metric tonnes. The Centre has also made it clear that it will not bear any responsibility for extra paddy arriving at...
More »A new app is failing India's fight against child malnutrition -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in Anganwadi staff need funds for infrastructure and supplies. Instead, the government gave them a new app that is riddled with problems. On the afternoon of August 23, the Chhota Sion urban health centre in the heart of Mumbai’s sprawling Dharavi slum was suddenly awash with pink. Nearly 80 women, all dressed in saris and salwar suits in various shades of the colour, trooped into its lobby. Breaking up into groups, they spent...
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