-The Hindu Instead of focusing on increasing rural wages, the BJP-led government is wasting resources on the NPR and NRC The National Population Register (NPR) and a possible National Register of Citizens (NRC), which will unleash a humanitarian crisis, are being pushed at a time when rural distress is acute. With the Budget Due soon, let’s look at how the BJP-led government has served the interests of the rural poor. A grim picture The...
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Govt may trim budget allocation for PM-Kisan
-PTI New Delhi: The government may reduce allocation for the PM-Kisan scheme by 20 per cent to around ?60,000 crore in the upcoming budget Due to implementation hurdles in some States, according to sources. The Centre had allocated Rs. 75,000 crore in the Budget Estimate (BE) for 2019-20 to implement the scheme, under which Rs. 6,000 is being provided to farmers per year in three equal instalments. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Civil society demands for increase in budgetary allocation under MGNREGA to clear pending wages
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 31st January, 2020 Rural distress has risen to alarming levels. As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of 2017-18, rural unemployment stands at 8 percent (statement 30 in Section 3.7, PLFS). In conjunction with skyrocketing food inflation levels, this is a serious concern. The situation is much worse for the landless depending on casual manual labour who constitute more than half the rural...
More »Maggi, fridge, clothes, mobile data, booze -- nothing is selling in slowdown-hit rural UP -Sanya Dhingra
-ThePrint.in Kids are denied lunch and weddings are austere as rural consumption takes a beating Due to economic slowdown. ThePrint travels through UP to meet people caught in the crisis. Jagatpur/ Jayapura: It is peak wedding season in Jagatpur village in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. And while India’s economic slowdown has not stopped people from getting married, it has drastically shrunk 21-year-old Naushad’s once-booming tailoring business. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Almost 75% farmers did not get all 3 PM Kisan instalments, a year after implementation -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in According to RTI and government data, even in the best-case scenario, the Centre has spent only 50% of the amount that was allocated under PM Kisan from December 2018 to March 2020. New Delhi: Less than three in 10 farmers received the Rs 6,000 that was Due to them in the first full year of the implementation of the Centre’s flagship PM Kisan scheme, according to government data obtained by The...
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