-Down to Earth Since its launch in 2016, India’s flagship crop insurance scheme has seen a consistent fall in acreage and number of farmers covered Even if a single farmer’s crop is Damaged in a village he will get the benefits of insurance - Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said while launching the government’s flagship Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) from Madhya Pradesh in 2016. The words, however, mean nothing to the farmers...
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Refund fine, restore seized properties of anti-CAA protesters, SC tells UP Govt
-The Pioneer New Delhi/ Lucknow: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to refund the fine and restore the attached properties of the alleged anti-CAA protesters for causing Damage to public and private assets in December 2019. Terming it as a case of “unjust enrichment”, the court said the State can recover the Damages under the new law, once it is established before the claims tribunal that public and...
More »A tale of two Bundelkhands: UP cuts a sorry figure compared to MP in all sectors, data shows -Shraddha Yadav, Vikash Vaibhav, and Varun Kumar Das
-ThePrint.in MP-Bundelkhand is silently increasing its economic might, powered by its agricultural sector. Growth in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand, on the other hand, has stagnated. With the ongoing assembly election in Uttar Pradesh ready to witness the third phase of polling on 20 February, covering the Bundelkhand region, we shift our focus towards the economies of a region that is often ignored in economic discussions. Earlier, we looked into Western and Eastern regions...
More »Tamil Nadu says ‘no’ in Supreme Court to neutrino observatory project
-The Hindu ‘It will Damage Western Ghats’ Tamil Nadu has made clear to the Supreme Court that it does not want the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be set up in a sensitive ecological zone in the Western Ghats at great cost to wildlife, biodiversity, and by ignoring the local opposition and public agitations to the project. The State said the project would be a source of distress to the shy tigers and...
More »India’s ‘Ghost Villages’: A Changing Environment Is Forcing People To Leave Home -Manish Kumar
-The Wire Science * Several houses along the eastern Indian coast have been impacted by constant sea erosion, cyclones and other environmental factors. Those living there have abandoned these houses. * Some living in these vulnerable areas, close to the Bay of Bengal, voluntarily moved as the tidal waves hit their homes, while others were resettled by the government. * Inter-state migration from such coastal hotspots has also been reported from Odisha, Andhra...
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