-Press Release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 11 April, 2018 Stagnant wage rates are not the only rude shock that workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) received this month. Most of the them also remain unpaid for the work done by them in the past few months. Ninety-nine per cent of the Fund Transfer Orders (FTOs) for MGNREGA wage payments sent to the Public Finance Management...
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Death in the farmlands: Suicides in agriculture sector decline 32% in 2016
-Business StaNDArd Suicides by farm labourers increased 9% to 5,019 in 2016 (14 every day) from 4,595 in 2015 (13 every day) As many as 6,351 farmers/cultivators committed suicide in 2016 across India, or 17 every day, according to the latest home ministry data. Suicides declined 21 per cent from 8,007, or 22 every day, in 2015, data show. Suicides in the farming sector declined 10 per cent — from 12,602 in 2015...
More »Two SC/ST courts: 1,450 pending cases -Shalini Nair, Satish Jha & Maulshree Seth
-The Indian Express Of 700-odd districts, merely 194 have the recommended exclusive courts for SC/ST Act cases. The SuNDAy Express travels to two such courts — one in Ahmedabad, set up after Una, and the other in BaNDA, a district with a high number of cases — to find a familiar story Over 1.44 lakh cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes and 23,408 cases of atrocities against Scheduled Tribes came for trial...
More »This price tracker tells farmers if the govt walks the talk on MSPs -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line Ryot body comes up with mobile alert to track, compare prices New Delhi: If you are a farmer, that last notification on your phone could be an alert from the Jai Kisan Andolan. And no, it does not have to do with another Maharashtra-style agitation against the government. It is the JKA informing you of the latest price of your commodity in the country’s premier agricultural markets. MSPAlert, which...
More »The politics of loan waivers: Deep despair of Punjab's excluded farmers -Prabhjit Singh
-Hindustan Times Lip service: Amarinder Singh sought votes on the promise of a waiver, but now faces heat as more than half the state’s farmers have been left out of the scheme. BathiNDA: The weather-beaten face of Rajpal Singh shows signs of anxiety as he stands in one corner of his eight-acre farmland in Punjab’s BathiNDA, surveying the standing wheat crop that is almost ready for harvest. Singh might get a reasonable price...
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