-The Indian Express NABARD’s new survey offers a baseline to double farmers’ incomes. But is a survey done in a drought year a reliable yardstick? On August 16, NABARD presented the nation with a gift when it released the results of its All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS). Among other things, the survey estimates 2015-16 farmers’ income levels. In February 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented his Vision of doubling...
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Govt announces Rs 10,000 crore connectivity plan for NE states -Pankaj Doval
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: With the national elections just a year away, the government on Saturday announced a mega investment and connectivity programme for the north-eastern states, entailing inflow of nearly Rs 10,000 crore through over 400 programmes expected to be rolled out in the next four years. The investments relate to enhancing the telecom infrastructure in the state, apart from setting up BPOs, boosting electronics manufacturing, giving a push to...
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-The Hindu Can India manage with a certain amount of disorder to sustain a plural Vision of democracy? The current situation in Assam seems like a nightmare, a warning about the internal contradictions of democracy. It is a warning that the 19th century ideas of democracy as electoral-ism and the notion of the nation-state as a fetishism of borders may be inappropriate as imaginations for the 21st century. It is a caution...
More »Milk production up 6.6% at 176.35 mn tonne in 2017-18
-PTI New Delhi: India’s milk production is estimated to have increased by 6.6 per cent to 176.35 million tonnes during the last financial year. “Milk production in the country is 165.4 million tonnes during 2016-17 and 176.35 million tonnes (proVisional) during 2017-18,” Minister of State for Agriculture Krishna Raj has said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. She also informed that the projected milk production by 2021-22 is 254.5 million...
More »Parliamentary panel doubts Centre "declaring" 9 top states, including Gujarat, 100% villages open defecation free
-Counterview.net Taking strong exception to the Government of India declaring villages of 10 major Indian states – Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand – as having achieved 100% sanitation coverage, a Parliament committee report, released in the Lok Sabha on July 19, has observed the dream of the Father of the Nation “for total sanitation for all and a clean India is still elusive.” Also...
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