-ThePrint.in While govt says subsidies have Been availed on 9,558 e-rickshaws to date, data compiled by road ministry portal Vahan 4.0 has shown dip in registration of e-rickshaws since 2019. New Delhi: While electric rickshaws, or e-rickshaws, can be spotted on the streets of Delhi any given time of day, their more primitive predecessors, the three-wheeler cycle rickshaws continue to remain a prominent mode of transport, straining to keep up with the...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 28809
Upper-caste businesspersons own 61.8% of micro, small and medium firms in India: Government data
-Scroll.in Entrepreneurs from the Scheduled Caste category own 6.8% of these enterprises, while those in the Scheduled Tribe category own just 2.1% of them. People belonging to the general category own 61.8% of all the micro, small and medium enterprises in India, The Hindu reported on Wednesday, citing government data. The Mandal Commission, which looked into the question of Other Backward Class reservation, has defined general category as groups that are “socially and...
More »May heat in March shrivels wheat: Centre to revise procurement norms -Shagun
-Down to Earth The Punjab government April 12 appealed to the central government to allow relaxation in the norms of shrivelled grains without any value cut, since the farmer had already Been penalised on account of lower yield The Punjab government said April 13, 2022 that the Centre has agreed to revise its wheat procurement norms for shrivelled grains, a day after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urged it do to so. Record-breaking...
More »OBC entrepreneurs own nearly 30% of India’s MSMEs -T Ramakrishnan
-The Hindu Around 41% of OBC-owned units are located in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. Chennai: Other Backward Classes (OBC) own nearly 30% of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in the country. As on March 31, 2022, the number of MSMEs owned by OBCs was 23.31 lakh units, out of a total of about 80.16 lakh units in the country. Of the OBC-owned units, around 41% are located in three States —...
More »With New MoEFCC Memo, Are Indian Policy Makers Supporting 'Big Biotech'? -Indra Shekhar Singh
-TheWire.in The MoEFCC's recent decision to exclude new-gen GM plants from the ambit of existing biosafety rules endangers our food system, food exports, farmers' rights over their crops and the country's biological heritage for the sake of corporate profits. Christmas came early for Big Biotech companies and their allied seeds multipliers as the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has recently, through an office memorandum, excluded the new generation genetically...
More »
