-Frontline Former psephologist Yogendra Yadav, now a member of the political collective Swaraj Abhiyan, recently toured India’s drought-affected districts. He called it a Samvedna Yatra. During the tour, he took note of the agony in rural areas affected by what he calls “one of the worst droughts in independent India” The drought, according to him, has left farmers and the larger rural community in extreme distress, leading to damaging changes in...
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e-agri platform to be launched on April 14: Modi
-PTI He said this platform will enable the farmers, using a mobile phone, to sell their produce anywhere in the country. SEHORE (MP): A digital platform for enabling farmers to sell their produce at a better rate anywhere in the country will be launched on April 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in Sehore on Thursday as he resolved to ensure doubling of the farmers’ income by 2022. Mr. Modi, who unveiled guidelines...
More »Drought insulation -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Total foodgrain production in 2015-16 is expected at 253.16 million tonnes (mt), according to the Agriculture Ministry’s SECond advance estimates. India’s agricultural output hasn’t taken as much a hit from back-to-back droughts this time round as with previous monsoon failure episodes. Total foodgrain production in 2015-16 is expected at 253.16 million tonnes (mt), according to the Agriculture Ministry’s SECond advance estimates. This is only 4.5 per cent below the...
More »Electricity subsidies for poor are stolen by the rich -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aditi Roy Ghatak & Maya Palit
-IndiaClimateDialogue.net While over 20% of India’s population has no access to electricity, the richest 40% of the population gets highly subsidised power; the SECond of a three-part series on the subsidy skew Along with coal mining, electricity is regulated by the state in India and subsidised. Electricity tariffs are kept deliberately low for poor households. Unfortunately much of this electricity is allocated in such a way that business and industrial consumers as...
More »Can India beat this slowdown? -Jayan Jose Thomas
-The Hindu It is only due to the high rates of growth in the services SECtor that India’s overall economic growth appears robust. The world economy is so hard to predict. In 2008, as the global financial markets plunged into a crisis, high oil prices were considered to be one of the factors that caused it. Today, many fear that the world economy is on the edge of another recession. Guess what...
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