-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Home Affairs The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh today visited the rain-hit areas of Uttar Pradesh to assess the crop loss to the farmers. Interacting with farmers in Saharanpur, Badaun and Kanpur districts, Shri Rajnath Singh said he was not visiting the rain-hit areas for the sake of doing Politics but that he is really concerned about their problems. "The Prime Minister is very concerned with...
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If we hobble Right to Information, then we hobble India’s democracy -Sanjoy Narayan
-Hindustan Times It took nearly 15 years for India's Right to Information Act (RTI) to finally become a law in 2005 after the late VP Singh (who was India's prime minister briefly) first stressed the importance of a law that would give citizens the right to seek and get information. But now that landmark act could become toothless in far less time than that. If that happens, it will be a...
More »Fields of Despair -Sutapa Deb
-NDTV There is the reality of a farmer's suicide and then there are versions of this reality. Whether you choose to accept the farmer's context of poverty, debt and extreme risk, or deny it, often depends on the class and profession you belong to. Fields pockmarked with brown mounds create a surreal setting. At least nine suicides by farmers have been linked to the crisis in West Bengal's potato belt. Farmers have...
More »Unseasonal rains deepen distress and debt on farms -Sayantan Bera and Nikita Mehta
-Livemint.com The untimely rain is set to further affect stressed rural income because of a slump in commodity prices Mathura/New Delhi: Last Monday, towards the evening, Sahab Singh, a 58-year-old farmer, walked up to his small patch of land in Mathura district of western Uttar Pradesh. Frequent spells of untimely rain over the past month had him worried. Joined by his two sons, Singh picked up two stalks of wheat that had...
More »NGOs facing a funding challenge -Moyna Manku
-Livemint.com Are funds drying up due to increased scrutiny or because India is now seen as an emerging economic power? New Delhi: The not-for-profit sector has been hitting the headlines-whether for the offloading of an Indian Greenpeace activist from an international flight or the cancellation of 1,100-plus funding licences in Andhra Pradesh last month. That the ministry of home affairs (MHA) has developed a great interest in voluntary organizations registered under The...
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