-The Hindu Palm oil is cheap, versatile and mostly imported. Now, the government has an ambitious PLAn for the large-scale production of this crop In his Independence Day speech, the Prime Minister announced a scheme to support the growth of palm oil in India. Three days later, the Cabinet approved a ₹11,040 crore outlay over five years for the National Mission on Edible Oils — Oil Palm, based on the argument that...
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Sheila Bhalla: A Committed Scholar and Activist -Vikas Rawal
-TheWire.in Her writings are indispensable for anyone interested in learning about the history of agrarian change and labour in modern India. Professor Sheila Bhalla, professor emerita at the School of Social Sciences, JNU, a respected teacher, a labour economist of repute and a committed activist, passed away in Puducherry on September 5. Canadian by birth, she was introduced to trade union activities early in her life by her father. She studied at the...
More »Village action PLAns prepared for Jal Jeevan Mission in Rajasthan
-The Hindu The scheme envisages supply of safe drinking water through tap connections Jaipur: The mandatory action PLAns for bringing safe drinking water through individual tap connections to all rural households under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) have been prepared for about 23,000 villages in Rajasthan. The action PLAns for other villages will be presented and approved in the Gram Sabhas to be held on October 2. The action PLAns, to be implemented...
More »COVID-19: Study Says India Top Source of Social Media Misinformation
-PTI/ Newsclick.in 'Social media (84.94%) produces the largest amount of misinformation, and the internet (90.5%) as a whole is responsible for most of the COVID-19 misinformation. Moreover, Facebook alone produces 66.87% of the misinformation among all social media PLAtforms.' New Delhi: India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on COVID-19 due to the country's higher internet penetration rate, increasing social media consumption and users' lack of internet literacy, according to...
More »Agriculture Ministry ties up with Jio, ITC, NCDEX to develop agritech
-The Hindu The Agriculture Ministry signed agreements on Tuesday with Reliance’s Jio PLAtforms, ITC, Cisco, NCDEX e-Markets and Ninjacart to develop agritech solutions using its National Farmers Database which includes information of 5.5 crore farmers. Microsoft, Amazon and Patanjali are among the companies that signed agreements for similar pilot projects earlier this year. This is part of an effort to modernise the agriculture sector by infusing new technologies so that farmers can...
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