-Scroll.in Inspired by a similar project in Alaska, the state may be the first in India to implement the concept of basic income. Tourist brochures frequently describe Goa as some kind of utopia and the Economic Survey – expected at the end of January, a day before the next Union Budget – could go some way in bridging the gap between imagination and reality. The document will discuss the feasibility of implementing...
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For jute industry in Bengal, it's a clicks-and-mortar weave now -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Mill workers being trained to carry out Cashless transactions Hooghly: Vijay Bahadur Chauhan, a 57-year-old jute mill worker, is listening attentively to what a bank official is saying. The official of a public sector bank is highlighting how a non-Android phone user, without Internet connectivity, can still carry out Cashless transactions. Only a handful of workers at Hastings Jute Mill, one of India’s first jute-making factory, which began operations in 1875,...
More »RBI says ban on Rs 1000, Rs 500 notes proposed hours before PM's speech -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recommended demonetisation of 500- and 1,000-rupee banknotes hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the surprise move in a televised address to the nation in the evening of November 8. The government and the RBI have kept the consultation process that led to the decision to demonetise 86% of India’s Cash in circulation a closely-guarded secret. Both, however, have insisted that the...
More »Gwalior farmers pay kids' school fees in paddy -Deshdeep Saxena
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Starved of Cash, 15 farmers of a village in Gwalior deposited 45 quintals of paddy as their children's school fees on Saturday. The school management sold the crop at a mandi and got a cheque of Rs 58,500. Bhitarwar region of Gwalior is known as the rice bowl of Madhya Pradesh, and paddy is the main crop of the kharif season. Villages here have run out of...
More »This government's modus operandi is constant distraction -Pratap Bhanu Mehta
-The Indian Express It distracts our attention from vital questions of institutional health and economic governance. During the second half of UPA 2, the press, with some justification, created a frenzy of anxiety over India’s future, especially its economic future. After two and a half years of the Narendra Modi government, if the same standards of concern about India’s future were brought to bear on the present government, what would the heightened...
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