-Mail Today New Delhi: And this dread scenario could well unfold, with the Met prediction of a below-normal monsoon on Monday being underlined by Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh who admitted that the forecast is of below-average rainfall. Precipitation in the June-September period is expected to be between 90 and 96 per cent of the long-term average, added the minister. What he didn't say was that the India Meteorological Department...
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Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan & Rajeev Deshpande
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall. "The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared," President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday. The official word...
More »Will access to toilets guarantee women's security in rural India? -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The Badaun rape incident shows how vulnerable women are to sexual violence when there are no toilets in homes The shocking incident of gang rape and murder of two minor girls in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district has drawn horrified reactions from leaders across the world. While most of the media attention has been on the apathy and insensitivity shown by the Akhilesh Yadav government and the police force, what...
More »Farmers look for green shoots-Ajay Vir Jakhar
-The Business Standard They were unimpressed by the UPA's misguided socialism, but they worry about the new regime's free-market orientation too Consider this paradox. The Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was decimated in the elections in spite of several years of good monsoon and rising agricultural production. Consider another paradox. This was the regime that implemented policies that were presumed to be pro-farmer: the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the...
More »More thrust on small farmers and agriculture sector-Manish Anand
-Deccan Chronicle New Delhi: Seeking to turnaround the agriculture sector, the Centre is likely to make a major shift in restructuring schemes to focus on small and marginal farmers. The Union agriculture ministry is also seeking to replicate the Gujrat and Madhya Pradesh models in giving a major push to the agricultural growth, which has remain at below four per cent level in the recent years. The likely change in the agriculture policy...
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