-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday assured the Supreme Court that the proposed Cauvery Water Management Board would be the sole arbiter for deciding the allocation and utilisation of river water. The court asserted that rivers are national assets on which no state can claim exclusive right. The court turned down Karnataka's plea that the hearing in the Cauvery dispute be adjourned till the first week of July since there is...
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MISsion Kakatiya best water management practice: NITI Aayog -B Chandrashekhar
-The Hindu The intervention has bridged 63% ayacut gap and also helped stabilisation of ayacut Hyderabad: A report prepared by NITI Aayog with the support of TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, has recognised the restoration and revival of minor irrigation tanks taken up by the Telangana government as one of the best practices in irrigation water management. The report observed “public participation will lead to ownership and help in long-term sustainability...
More »A triple blow to job guarantee scheme -Rajendran Narayanan & Madhubala Pothula
-The Hindu A lack of sufficient funds, rampant payment delays and abysmal wage rates are to blame The ?11,000 crore fraud that diamond merchant Nirav Modi is said to have created is a figure that needs to be put in perspective. The total amount of wages pending under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme for the whole country (2016-17) was around ?11,000 crore too. This sum is a...
More »Death in the Midst of Plenty: Farmer Suicides in Punjab -Sukhpal Singh
-Economic and Political Weekly There remain MISconceptions regarding farmer suicides. There is a need to set right these erroneous ideas based on scientific studies that have been conducted seeking to devise solutions to address the prevailing crisis of the peasantry in Punjab. Please click here to access the article. ...
More »Cracking the rural consumption puzzle -Aarati Krishnan
-The Hindu Business Line The surge in non-farm employment has led to a rural consumption splurge, making listed companies bullish Is rural India languishing in abject MISery, or is it on a cheerful spending spree? Today you can get diametrically opposing views on this, depending on where you get your information. If you are an avid follower of news, then you would be firmly in the pessiMISt camp, having read all about...
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