-PTI MUMBAI: Nabard today said it has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, to set up a Chair to encourage research in climate change, rural Livelihood and financial inclusion, among others. The MoU was signed by Nabard Deputy Managing Director H R Dave and IIM-A Director Ashish Nanda at Ahmedabad, a release said. Please click here to read more. ...
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Cash transfers, the lazy short cut -Mihir Shah
-The Hindu Alleviating poverty in India requires not only cash transfers but also other enabling changes Advocates of unconditional cash transfers claim that they can be both emancipatory and transformative. They argue that people are quite capable of making rational decisions. And that this kind of basic income support can improve their lives. I have no quarrel with the claim that we must trust the poor. Such suspicion is part of an elite...
More »An uncertain Hobbesian life -Feroze Varun Gandhi
-The Hindu India's small farmers have been struggling for centuries now and they need social and governmental action to change their future Of India's 121 million agricultural holdings, 99 million are with small and marginal farmers, with a land share of just 44 per cent and a farmer population share of 87 per cent. With multiple cropping prevalent, such farmers account for 70 per cent of all vegetables and 52 per cent...
More »Travel bar on green activist
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Indian immigration today stopped a Greenpeace activist from flying to Britain where she intended to tell parliamentarians that a London-registered company's coalmining activities in India were infringing on forest communities' rights. The environmental organisation said its senior campaigner Priya Pillai, who had a valid business visa to visit Britain, was stopped at Delhi airport and denied permission to board her London flight. Her passport was stamped "offloaded". Pillai had...
More »Eminent persons urge President to reject land ordinance
-The Hindu They wabted the govt to table the proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, in Parliament so that they can be "democratically" discussed. A group of concerned citizens has written to President Pranab Mukherjee to "rethink and reject" the Ordinance which seeks to amend the Land Acquisition Act of 2013. In a letter to the President, the group has urged him to advise the government to table the proposed amendments...
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