-The Times of India NEW DELHI: One third of the requests for information filed with public sector banks were turned down last year. Of the 79,148 applications filed in 2014-2015, 30.5% were rejected. About 24 banks dealt with 79,148 RTI applications which amounts to 56.4% of the total volume of RTI applications received by the ministry of finance. Incidentally, finance ministry received the highest number of RTIs (1.4 lakh) among all public...
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Golden yields - Focusing on agriculture alone will not improve farm incomes -Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
-The Telegraph The recent budget talked about the government's plan to double farm incomes in the next five years. This will be done through investments in rural infrastructure, especially irrigation. About 50 per cent of land under foodgrain production in India is irrigated. This means that half of the foodgrain producing land in India faces weather uncertainties and, hence, those working on them face annual (seasonal) variations in income. These variations...
More »Centre issues directives to curb cotton whitefly
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Centre has issued directives to cotton-producing states like punjab and Haryana to ensure timely sowing of the crop and use of only recommended seeds for preventing whitefly attack, which caused significant damage to the crop last year. States have been directed to keep a close watch on the movement of whitefly and ensure timely sprinkling of pesticides to check its menace. "Union agriculture and farmers welfare ministry has issued...
More »Brinkmanship over a limited dispute -Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu The Centre should step forward and bring both punjab and Haryana, ruled by the BJP and an ally, to the negotiating table to resolve the crisis over the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal Contemporary India illustrates the tragic paradox of farmers’ politics: they get divided just when they need to unite the most. The last few years have witnessed a deepening of the agrarian crisis in India. This is the moment when...
More »Middlemen in crisis
-The Indian Express The number of arhtiya suicides may not be anywhere close to those by farmers, but they do suggest a certain trend. When prices of commodities, be it basmati rice or cotton, were good, farmers planted with gusto. The ongoing agrarian crisis has spread beyond farmers to consume even arhtiyas or grain commission agents, as a report in this newspaper from punjab has shown. The number of arhtiya suicides may...
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