-The Telegraph The Centre’s efforts to introduce reformist laws to reinvigorate the business ecosystem can often be stymied by the states through regressive legislation Labour reform in India has always been a prickly subject and any attempt to amend legislation sparks outrage and resentment among one or the other group of stakeholders in the economy. When the Narendra Modi government crunched 29 Central laws into four labour codes last year, India Inc...
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Rs.2 Lakh For Every Protester Arrested In Delhi Tractor Rally: Punjab -Mohammed Ghazali
-NDTV.com Farmers especially from Punjab and Haryana have been camping around Delhi for a year in protest against three new farm laws Chandigarh: The Punjab government has announced financial help for 83 people arrested in Delhi after violence broke out during a farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day this January. The move is likely to spark a controversy and set up Punjab's Congress government and the centre for a new battle. Farmers especially...
More »Data: Three States accounted for more than 70% of UAPA cases registered since 2014 0 -Pavithra KM
-Factly.in Cases relating to ‘Sedition’ and those registered under the UAPA have been discussed widely in the last few years. Data indicates that the three states of Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir, Assam accounted for more than 70% of the cases registered under UAPA between 2014 & 2020. On the other hand, the nine states of Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, and Manipur accounted for more...
More »The Govt Has Spent Crores But Failed to Find a Viable Alternative to Stubble Burning in Punjab -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in In the last four years, a total of Rs 1,050.68 crore was given to Punjab, of which Rs 235 crore was released in the financial year 2021-22; however, the field fires are far from over in the state. Chandigarh: Despite the Union government spending over Rs 2,000 crore to tackle stubble burning over the last four years, the issue continues to smother north India, leading to severe dips in air quality...
More »Haryana’s deficit payment scheme still a work in progress, I learnt in my mandi visits -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in Farmers, farm leaders, economists and policy makers would do well to study this scheme carefully as it shows a possible path to the future. Anew model? Or another fiasco in the making? I kept asking my colleagues and myself as we travelled across the semi-arid bajra growing belt of south Haryana. We stopped at a few mandis — Rewari, Kanina, Ateli, Narnaul, Dadari and Bhiwani — and spoke to farmers, adhatiyas...
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