The Rs.3,884-crore package for the handloom sector, which includes one-time waiver of overdue loans and interests, approved by the Union Cabinet, is expected to benefit about 3-lakh weavers and 15,000 cooperative societies, which would have access to institutional credit once again. However, the package will benefit only those who took loan before March 31, 2010. “There would be many weavers who had no access to institutional credit in the past and...
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Protesters threaten to lay siege to nuclear complex at Kudankulam
-The Hindu They set deadline for removing fuel assemblies in KKNPP complex Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protesters will lay siege to the upcoming nuclear complex with their family members if works were resumed, and intensify the protest if fuel assemblies stored in the KKNPP complex were not removed before December 31, struggle committee convener S.P. Udayakumar has warned. The deadline has been in the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's announcement in Moscow...
More »Death as a way out by Jayati Ghosh
It is clearly the absence of political will rather than a paucity of ideas that is responsible for the country's agrarian crisis. EXACTLY seven years ago this month, the Commission on Farmers' Welfare, appointed by the government of Andhra Pradesh, submitted its report to the then Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. His Congress government assumed office earlier that year replacing the Telegu Desam Party regime led by N. Chandrababu Naidu, which...
More »RD ministry goes plan panel way, to discuss annual funds with states by Subodh Ghildiyal
The Union rural development ministry has decided to ape Planning Commission's discussion with states for annual finances to send a stronger message about Centre's authorship on welfare schemes, a move aimed at addressing the longstanding gripe of Congress that states were cornering all the credit. The ministry has asked states to prepare for "annual plan discussion for RD schemes" from 2012, a consultation to finalise their budget for each scheme...
More »A pill to cure all ill? by Nripendra Misra
One hopes that the hotly contested Lokpal Bill will reach its final denouement during the winter session of Parliament. In fact, the debate on corruption in Parliament and media has focused on the single demand for the establishment of an omnipotent institution of the lokpal with its powers of enforcing the citizen’s charter, establishing state-level lokayuktas and encompassing the bureaucracy from a peon to head of the department. It has...
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