-TheThirdPole.net Of the many people struggling to prove their citizenship in the Indian state of Assam are thousands of climate refugees who have been displaced because their Lands have been swept away by erosion or floods In Bhuragaon, a small village that lies 103 kilometres east of Guwahati, the capital of Assam in north-eastern India, Sabita Biswas worries about her grandchildren. The 70-year-old has submitted Land ownership documents under her husband and...
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Enable MSMEs to grow and create jobs -Ajay Shankar
-The Hindu Business Line Apart from easing labour laws and providing a social security net, a focus on clusters with access to Land and capital will help Getting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), who employ 92 per cent of the workforce, to grow more rapidly should be one of the pillars of any strategy for job creation. This year’s Economic Survey does candidly state that “Our policies must, therefore, focus on...
More »Liberalising tenancy or grabbing Land of the poor? - Vikas Rawal & Vaishali Bansal
-Newsclick.in NSSO data shows that of the total Land under tenancy in 2011-12, about 36% was taken on lease by top 30% Landowners. The State in India, barring the Left-led governments, has never been committed to implementing redistributive Land reforms and securing rights of tenants. After 1991, when India adopted the policies of liberalisation and globalisation, the government stopped paying even the lip service to the programme of Land reforms as they...
More »Give the Punjab farmer some time -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express He will sooner or later adopt stubble burning-free technology. Imposing fines or filing FIRs is counterproductive. JaLandhar: Urban residents and the courts may fulminate, but farmers in Punjab and Haryana aren’t anytime soon going to stop burning crop residue from the harvesting and threshing of paddy using combines. They may well choose to harvest paddy with combines that have Super Straw Management System (SSMS) attachments and sow the succeeding...
More »Lured with jobs, sold as slaves abroad -Moumita Chaudhuri
-The Telegraph Thousands of labourers are trafficked out of India every day with promises of more money and a better life. But the reality is far from it Time: 6 in the morning. Place: office of the National Anti-Trafficking Committee (NATC) in south Calcutta. The NATC is a non-government organisation. There are seven men sitting around a square table. They have Landed hours ago from Kuala Lumpur, where they were working as...
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