-Hindustan Times The workers stage the unique protest against the Centre’s decision to increase their wages from Rs 167 to Rs 168. Ranchi/ Latehar: Several Jharkhand MNREGA workers have returned Rs 1, the amount the Centre has increased in their wages, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state chief minister Raghubar Das to protest the meagre hike. The union government has recently increased the wages for the Jharkhand workers under the Mahatma...
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Government planning 'one nation, one market' in agriculture sector -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com The government’s model law for agricultural reforms aims to allow farmers a wider choice of markets beyond the local mandi New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is working on creating a common agricultural market that will improve the lot of farmers and the efficiencies of India’s notoriously inefficient farm-produce markets. The government put out a model law proposing a fundamental reset in the way agricultural markets operate on 24 April....
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Congress today alleged that the Narendra Modi government was testing the waters on bringing agricultural income within the tax ambit and declared its intention to build a movement of farmers if the idea was implemented. "This government is harassing industrialists, traders, students, political rivals... only one section of the society was left, that is farmers," Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said. "The statements coming from important people in...
More »Generic medicines in a digital age -Dinesh S Thakur & Prashant Reddy T
-The Hindu We need a legal mechanism to ensure that all generics are of the same standard as the innovator product The Prime Minister’s recent announcement on making it mandatory for doctors to prescribe only the generic name, and not brand name of a drug, has led to a flutter. If enacted, the move will make it illegal for Indian doctors to write out a prescription for the trademark of the drug,...
More »With Niti Aayog's three-tier plans, Soviet-era state control over economy is back (in a new bottle) -Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
-Scroll.in The Five Year plan is gone, several long- and short-term plans are in, but the government is still mapping growth in a supposedly market economy. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the dismantling of the more than six-decades-old Planning Commission in his Independence Day speech on August 15, 2014, it seemed that India was at last formally breaking with the notion of planning, a socialist recipe for the anarchic market...
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