-The Hindu Farmer groups unhappy with the increase in paddy price. The Central government has hiked the minimum support price (MSP) for common paddy to ₹1,940 a quintal for the coming kharif season, less than 4% higher than last year’s price of ₹1,868. The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday. In a bid to encourage crop diversification, there were slightly higher increases in the MSP for pulses, oilseeds...
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Every second COVID case and death reported in May 2021 was from rural India -Nidhi Jamwal
-GaonConnection.com Last month, 53% of new cases and 52% of deaths due to the coronavirus were from rural districts of India, finds the ‘State of India’s Environment 2021’ report. What makes the situation more worrisome is the acute shortage of healthcare staff in rural India — a 76.1% shortfall of specialists at the CHC level. Rural India, where two-thirds of Indians live, did not escape the fury of the second wave of...
More »SC Orders Removal of 10,000 Residential Constructions on Aravali Forest Land
-PTI/ TheWire.in The forest land is located near Lakarpur Khori village in Faridabad district and has to be cleared within six weeks. New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday directed Haryana and the Faridabad municipal corporation to remove all encroachments, consisting around 10,000 residential constructions, in Aravali forest area near a village, saying land grabbers cannot take refuge of rule of law and talk of fairness. A vacation bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and...
More »The Mystery of Missing Vaccines -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in Large-scale privatisation of the vaccination programme is happening, cutting of low-paying sections of the population. Yet, other discrepancies remain, calling for an audit by CAG. India is facing an acute vaccine shortage. The impression that generally prevails is that this shortage is because while production capacity is slow to increase, there has been a sudden spurt in vaccine demand since vaccination is now open for the 18-44 years age group in...
More »Punjab, TN, Kerala perform well in school education
-The Hindu Gujarat loses ground in Education Ministry’s grading index Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have all scored higher than 90% in the Education Ministry’s Performance Grading Index for 2019-20 which was released on Sunday. Gujarat dropped from second to eighth rank in the index, while Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are the only States which have seen actual regression in scores over this period. The index monitors the progress that States and Union...
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