-The New Indian Express After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the Odisha government is shifting gears for the third edition of its flagship investment meet, Make in Odisha 2022. After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the Odisha government is shifting gears for the third edition of its flagship investment meet, Make in Odisha 2022. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik interacted with ambassadors of 16 countries on August 31 in New Delhi, for partnering with the...
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Deregulation of Agricultural Marketing: How has it Affected the APMC System in Karnataka? -Ayush Kumar
-Foundation for Agrarian Studies In December 2020, in line with the Central Farm Laws, the Government of Karnataka passed an amendment to the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) Act, 1966. This amendment reduced the scope of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) by effectively ending their status as the only place (with some exceptions) where WHOlesale agricultural trade was permitted by law. Despite the three Central Farm Laws being...
More »Protest against eviction drives in Delhi-NCR and other cities
-Press release by Freedom from Bondage movement dated 6 September, 2022 New Delhi: As we mark #75thIndependenceDay & #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav, thousands of people WHO have been evicted from their homes in slums, Jhuggies, settlement colonies and informal sector workers WHO have been denied their livelihood without any rehabilitation have gathered at Jantar Mantar to raise their voice against the “Bulldozer Raj”. The government is forcibly snatching the land of poor Dalits and...
More »With the NEP's Focus on 'Autonomy', Are We Ushering in a Spirit of Academic Capitalism? -Pramod K Nayar
-TheWire.in Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode. In a perspicacious commentary on the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP), social scientist Satish Deshpande noted that multiple exit options “will certainly help in renaming drop-outs as certificate or diploma-holders. But they cannot ensure that these credentials will bring significant benefits for...
More »Realistic analysis shows that the Indian economy has simply taken little steps in Q1 instead of a quantum leap
There is euphoria abound about India's growth performance during the first quarter of the current fiscal. As compared to the corresponding period last year, the year-on-year (y-o-y) GDP growth in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022-23 is down. However, one should take into account the fact that the high growth performance of the real GDP in Q1 of 2021-22 was due to the low base in the corresponding period of...
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