-Down to Earth The scheme is just 'lip service' for the Modi government says official even as Piyush Goyal allocates Rs 750 crore to it Usually, the Union government’s Budget is allocated for all types of livestock and animal husbandry development purposes. On February 1, 2019, interim Minister of Finance Piyush Goyal eulogised Cattle in his speech and allocated Rs 750 crore for them under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM). RGM is...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 721
Aruna Roy, well-known social and political activist, interviewed by Jipson John and Jitheesh PM (Frontline.in)
-Frontline.in Interview with Aruna Roy. ARUNA ROY is a well-known social and political activist. A former Indian Administrative Service officer, she resigned from the IAS in 1975 and has since worked with the most oppressed in society. Aruna Roy’s observation on government service is indicative of her future concerns: “Everyone calls it an elite service; I always felt the discourse should be a bit better than what it was. I was shocked...
More »Maharashtra drought: Year's first Cattle camp already home to over 7,000 animals -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express The first Cattle camp of the 2018-2019 drought opened unusually early on January 1, long before the advent of the summer, and is already home to over 7,000 animals who will live at the camp until the monsoon arrives. Mhaswad (Satara, Maharashtra): THEIR JERSEY cows and Murrah buffaloes now their lifeline in a worsening drought, 1,400 families from villages in Satara’s Maan taluka have moved with their animals...
More »India's Cow Crisis Part 4: The stigma of Mewat -Jitendra
-Down to Earth How this backward district in Haryana has borne the brunt of stringent cow-related laws “How do you fit a veterinary doctor, fodder and a water tank inside a pickup van?” asks Nooruddin, sitting at a tea shop. The 50-year-old former goat keeper now marks buffaloes with colour at the animal market in Firozpur Jhirka for Rs 200, twice a week. Supplementary earnings working at a butcher shop take his...
More »India's Cow Crisis Part 3: Brutal to kill India's ancient Uber economy -Sunita Narain
-Down to Earth Sunita Narain on cow-vigilantism, Cattle trade and the collapse of the livestock economy of India I would not advocate vegetarianism. When I reasoned this out in this column a few years ago, I received the usual insults. Environmentalists are expected to be vegetarian, or better vegan! But what many didn’t register was my emphasis: “I am saying this as an Indian environmentalist; not global or western environmentalist.” My argument has...
More »
