-FirstPost.com Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a jibe at India's perennially hostile neighbour Pakistan at his Kozhikode speech, just a few days ahead of the 'surgical attacks' conducted by the Indian army's special forces at LoC. The Prime Minister said India is ready for a war with Pakistan, but a war on poverty, unemployment and malnutrition. Modi's 'war CRY' resonated well in Pakistani media, too. It seems we, Indians, are indeed...
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Agriculture loans a far CRY for tenant farmers in Andhra -Jayanth P
-The Times of India VIJAYAWADA: The farm credit disbursal system in the state remains crippled for a long time now as a majority of tenant farmers, who constitute about 80 per cent of the cultivators in the state, are unable to avail of the loan facility. Experts say the latest recommendations by the bankers' sub-committees also do not reflect the reality. In fact, they fear the recommendations will only aggravate the...
More »Food matters in West Bengal -Jean Dreze & Souparna Maji
-The Indian Express PDS has improved in the state, but it’s still not up to the mark. Recent media reports suggest that the public distribution system (PDS) in West Bengal is now “doing enormously well” — as one headline put it. Some also claim that this has contributed to the victory of the Trinamool Congress in the latest assembly elections. Since we were involved in the survey cited in these reports, we...
More »Land return CRY in Purulia, sale plan in Singur -Pranesh Sarkar and Biswanath Roy
-The Telegraph First Alisha, now Raghunathpur. The post-Singur verdict demand for return of land today spread to Purulia's Raghunathpur, where around 3,000 farmers launched an agitation to get back 6,300 acres acquired from them for an industrial park that is yet to come up. The Left government had acquired over 7,420 acres for the proposedRaghunathpur Steel and Allied Industrial Park between 2007 and 2010. Of this, various companies have taken possession of 2,915...
More »One in five marriages in north India is child marriage -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu Ten million married men and 35 million married women in the north India were married as children, according to a detailed analysis of the 2011 Census data. Topping the list is Rajasthan, where almost one-third or 30 per cent of the currently married persons were victims of child marriage. Close on the heels is Madhya Pradesh at 26 per cent, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Haryana at 21 per cent...
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