-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre accused the Supreme Court of encroaching into the legislative domain while diluting the stringent arRest provision of the SC/ST ( Prevention of Atrocities) Act and appealed on Thursday for its Restoration. The written submission by attorney general K K Venugopal on behalf of the Centre reflected the executive’s seething anger rather than a dispassionate analysis of the March 20 judgment, which introduced anticipatory bail...
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Plan to ease slaughter bar
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Union environment ministry has released new draft rules to replace proposals from last year that would have banned the sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets and had stunned the livestock industry and prompted the Centre to rethink the move. The ministry on April 5 notified draft rules to supersede its May 2017 draft rules that would have required sellers and purchasers to declare that cattle...
More »With higher output, lower prices and likely import curbs, wheat may go the pulses way -G Chandrashekhar
-The Hindu Business Line The Indian wheat situation is turning worrisome, not because of the over-optimistic production estimate released by the Ministry of Agriculture recently, but because of the current price levels that provide no encouragement to farmers. Fraught with possibilities, the wheat may go the pulses way. The policy-makers may soon be forced to impose import Restrictions in the form of higher tariffs. Output, prices To start with, no one in the trade...
More »End to cattle curbs: on withdrawal of sale ban
-The Hindu The withdrawal of ill-conceived Restrictions on livestock trade is welcome Good sense appears to have prevailed at last. With a fresh set of draft rules to replace last year’s poorly conceived ones, the Centre has sought to withdraw the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets. The draft rules are now open for comments and suggestions. When the Union Ministry for Environment, FoRests and Climate Change notified...
More »Delay in MGNREGA wage payment caused by non-processing of Fund Transfer Orders, say social activists
-Press Release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 11 April, 2018 Stagnant wage rates are not the only rude shock that workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) received this month. Most of the them also remain unpaid for the work done by them in the past few months. Ninety-nine per cent of the Fund Transfer Orders (FTOs) for MGNREGA wage payments sent to the Public Finance Management...
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