-Hindustan Times An Indian farmer earned ₹27 per day on average from cultivation in 2018-19. This is less than what he would have earned doing MGNREGS work through the year. An Indian farmer earned ₹27 per day on average from cultivation in 2018-19. This is less than what he would have earned doing MGNREGS work through the year. These numbers underline the magnitude of the viability crisis in Indian agriculture. India’s inability to shift...
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Supreme Court to hear pleas for independent probe
-PTI/ The Hindu Pleas are related to reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent citizens, politicians and scribes The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on September 13 a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged snooping on certain people in India involving Pegasus, the Israeli spyware. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana had on September 7 granted more time to the Centre to decide...
More »OBC Muslims’ body launches campaign for caste census in Maharashtra -Dhaval Kulkarni
-Hindustan Times The All India Muslim OBC Organisation (AIMOBC) is looking at expanding their campaign to press for caste-based census across the country and wants a scientific headcount of all castes, including those among Muslims, for enhanced affirmative action benefits. As the demand for a caste-based census intensifies, an organisation of backward Muslims has launched a state-wide campaign to press for it. The All India Muslim OBC Organisation (AIMOBC) is looking at...
More »Why Does Bonded Labour Still Persist in India? -Leaflet.in
-Leaflet.in/ Newsclick.in While we may have entered the 21st century, bonded labour is still a reality in India. Manav Gupta and Kashish Gupta analyse the laws in India to probondtect from bonded labour and comment on the inadequacy of State initiatives to curb this menace. Last month, a man was booked by police in Palghar district’s Mokhada for allegedly putting a tribal villager who had borrowed Rs. 500 from him into bonded...
More »Indebted India: Over half of farm households still under debt -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth Andhra, Telangana have highest percentage of agricultural households under debt; Average debt: Rs 2.45 lakh in Andhra More than half of India’s agricultural households were in debt, with an average outstanding of Rs 74,121, according to the latest ‘Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land Holdings of Households in Rural India, 2019’ released September 10, 2021. The percentage of households in debt, however, reduced slightly from 51.9 per cent as...
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