-The Indian Express Apart from repeal of farm laws, farmers are demanding guaranteed minimum support prices, which have no legal backing. A look at what the implications would be if the govt did provide the guarantee Farmer unions protesting on Delhi’s borders are raising two fundamental demands. The first is for repealing the three agricultural reform laws enacted by the Centre. The second is to provide legal guarantee for the minimum support...
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Removing the creases in housework valuation -Faizan Mustafa
-The Hindu The work women perform for the family should be valued equally with men’s work during the continuance of marriage “The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master. This grates harshly upon the ears of Christendom; but it is made palpably and practically true all through our statute books, despite the poetic fancy which views woman as elevated...
More »Can India actually afford MSP for farmers? It’s a question of political will -Kiran Vissa and Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in If there is one moment to bust the myth about MSP being unviable, it is now, when lakhs of farmers are preparing to march to the capital on Republic Day. Can the farmers of India be offered a guaranteed remunerative price for their produce? The Narendra Modi government, some economists, and the country’s media would have you believe that this is impossible — both logistically and financially. They are wrong. They...
More »Farmers’ protest-- In a thaw, Centre offers to put off farm laws for 18 months -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Unions to study proposal, return for talks on January 22. Farm union leaders will consider a proposal from the Central government to suspend the implementation of three contentious farm laws for the next one and a half years while a committee is formed to look into their demands. Union leaders said the Centre had also offered to submit an affidavit to the Supreme Court to this effect. They will discuss the...
More »Uttarakhand increases number of working Days from 100 to 150 under MGNREGA
-ANI/ Business Standard The move aims to encourage employment opportunities In a move to encourage employment opportunities, Uttarakhand Government has announced that the number of working Days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) will be increased from 100 to 150, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said on MonDay. While addressing the gathering at his office, Rawat said that government will increase the number of working Days from 100 to...
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