-The Hindu Restricting the price subsidy to coarse grains alone will not only work better from both fiscal and equity points of view but also weaken the incentives for graft The National Food Security Act (NFSA), passed recently by Parliament, offers 5 kg per person a month of cereals at highly subsidised prices to more than the bottom two-thirds of the population. It has been rightly hailed as the largest welfare programme...
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Everybody’s loss-Jyotika Sood
-Down to Earth Delisting fruits and vegetables from APMC Act in Congress-ruled states will not benefit farMers Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi last December said fruits and vegetables will become affordable if states allowed farMers to directly sell their produce to consuMers. He also directed the chief ministers in Congress-ruled states to delist fruits and vegetables from the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act. The Act makes it mandatory for farMers to sell...
More »Small States, big problems-Ajay Gudavarthy
-The Hindu Even a cursory look at how Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have fared will tell us how the Mere formation of a smaller State is no guarantee for better lives for those groups for whom these States have been created Smaller States have been the new political mode of addressing basic issues that were otherwise left unresolved. However, fighting for a new state and reconstructing on a more sustainable democratic content...
More »India’s deepening farm crisis: 76% farMers want to give up farming, shows study -Jyotika Sood
-Down to Earth Benefits of government schemes and policies go to big farMers, shows survey undertaken by CSDS on behalf of farMers' association A study by a premier social sciences research institute reinforces what policymakers and media have been talking about the past few years-that India is going through a deep agrarian crisis. The Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), based in Delhi, found that given an option majority of farMers...
More »Anganwari workers accuse Centre, Punjab of ignoring them
-The Times of India BATHINDA (Punjab): The spate of protests is not ending in Bathinda even after the model code of conduct for elections coming into force. On Friday, anganwari workers and helpers observed the International Women's Day by holding a huge protest in the town. Anganwari Mulazim Union, under the banner of Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), held a protest, in which hundreds of women from across Malwa region...
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