-Down to Earth Punjab produces about 19-20 million tonnes of paddy straw and about 85-90 per cent of this paddy straw is burnt in the field Burning of agricultural biomass residue, or Crop Residue Burning (CRB) has been identified as a major health hazard. In addition to causing exposure to extremely high levels of Particulate Matter concentration to people in the immediate vicinity, it is also a major regional source of...
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Indian MSMEs yet to reap the benefit of Govt. schemes, says a recent report
A recently released report shows that only a few enterprises belonging to the labour-intensive Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector could take advantage of the 205 number of public schemes (available in October 2015) of various Ministries or Departments of the Government, as listed at the website www.clusterobservatory.in. (Please click here to access the report on MSMEs and the challenges they face). Prepared by the Foundation for MSME Clusters...
More »Uniform civil code: Law panel seeks public opinion on anti-women practices -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Law Commission's exercise to formulate a Uniform Civil Code reached a critical phase as it asked the citizens to give their views on ending several religious practices and customs that had been branded anti-women in all three major religions. Sending out a list of 16 questions to gauge public opinion and the direction in which it should proceed, the Commission also asked whether to ban...
More »Agriculture economics: The next big farm solution - cutting production costs -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express In a scenario of depressed crop prices, a unique PPP model in milk shows the way out. Coimbatore: For roughly a decade from 2004-05 to 2013-14, Indian farmers experienced rising incomes from higher crop prices year after year — something they pretty much took for granted. That party ended with the crash in global commodity prices, hitting agricultural exports hard and translating into lower farm-gate realisations for most crops. But...
More »The salience of the Singur verdict -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A more progressive Central law on land acquisition is now in place, but several States have already either amended the new law or enacted legislation of their own. On August 31, the Supreme Court in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal delivered one of the most momentous decisions of the year. It invalidated the expropriation of land in Singur by the erstwhile Left Front government in Bengal, and...
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