-The Hindu Opinion comes at a time when Telangana SEC is set to carry out an e-voting experiment Former Chief Election Commissioners (CEC) have raised a range of concerns, from maintaining secrecy of ballots to bringing political parties on board, around the idea of online voting and remote voting, at a time the Telangana State Election Commission is set to carry out an e-voting experiment and the Election Commission of India, too,...
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CM KCR announces plan to settle podu lands issue, alternative land to be allotted
-IANS/ TheNewsMinute.com The decision comes in the wake of increasing incidents of conflict between tribals and forest officials. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday, October 9, directed officials to launch an action plan from the third week of October to settle the podu land (shifting agricultural land) issue in the state. The decision comes in the wake of increasing incidents of conflict between tribals and forest officials. KCR made it...
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The newly released Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round) establishes the fact that the farm households are more and more relying on wage incomes instead of 'net incomes from crop cultivation' for their livelihoods. In Marxian lexicon, proletarisation (a term that we can loosely use for depeasantisation) refers to the process in which the farmers/ tillers are...
More »Facts vs. frenzy in the ‘encounter’ killings in the Disha gang-rape and murder case -Padmaja Shaw
-The Hindu As the ‘encounter’ killings in Hyderabad’s infamous Disha case are examined by a Commission, a look at how the rule of law is steadily losing ground “We are examining a very important matter. A serious matter of fact-finding that has a great impact on society. People are concerned. Some may express it, some may not,” Justice Rekha Sundar Baldota, a former judge of Bombay High Court, said during the Justice...
More »Southern states had a higher proportion of indebted farm households in 2019, shows NSO survey
The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round), which was released recently, informs one about farm households' income in the crop year 2018-19 and indebtedness in 2019 (as on the date of survey), among other things. Prior to the recent report, Land and Livestock Holding Surveys (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households used to be...
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