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On Government's Claims Of Creating 7 Crore Jobs, A Fact Check -Sreenivasan Jain and Manas Pratap Singh

-NDTV The government's reliance on the MUDRA scheme of lending to Small Businesses to create jobs has not had the kind of result being advertised. New Delhi: Facing heat for not being able to back its promises of job creation, the Centre and the BJP have repeatedly cited the success of its MUDRA scheme, an acronym for Micro Units Refinance and Development Agency, meant to promote lending to Small Businesses. Speaking earlier this...

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Small farms are eating away farmers' profits and productivity -Harini Calamur

-DNA Most of Europe avoided the fate of India, because of a very strict feudal law — that of following primogeniture, a system of inheritance by the firstborn (usually the first born son). Karnataka — preceded by UP, Punjab and Maharashtra — is the fourth state to have waived off loans taken by farmers. However, this is not going to be the end of the matter. You are likely to...

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Small Businesses grapple with GST compliance -Surabhi

-The Hindu Business Line Automating the systems seems to be the biggest challenge New Delhi: With less than a week to go for the new indirect tax regime to kick in, Small Businesses are trying to understand the modalities of the goods and services tax (GST) as the compliance burden for them is set to significantly rise. Making a relaxation for Small Businesses, rules allow those with an annual turnover between Rs. 20...

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GST Is Proving to Be a Procedural Nightmare for Small Service Providers and Traders -MK Venu

-TheWire.in Most of the outreach efforts of the finance ministry to explain and create awareness about the GST have been with the bigger industry players. It is becoming increasingly clear that that neither the Centre nor states are adequately prepared to launch the goods and services tax (GST) on July 1. The sheer multiplicity of taxes, as also different tax slabs for the same commodity or service, is a problem which has...

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Why I would not advocate vegetarianism -Sunita Narain

-Down to Earth Meat eating is not the key issue, it is the amount that is consumed and the manner in which it is produced. This is where India differs. Recently at the release of our book First Food: Culture of Taste, which discusses the link between biodiversity, nutrition and livelihoods, I was asked a question. “Why do you not, as an environmentalist espousing the cause of traditional and local diets that...

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