-The Times of India Jaipur: At Jawaja in Ajmer and Bhim in Rajsamand, workers associated with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) met in large numbers to speak of their problems. It was on February 2, 2006, that NREGA was first implemented in 200 districts of the country. Friday, thus, marked the 12th anniversary of the launch of this programme. People sought not just 100 days as at...
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No Aadhaar, Gurgaon hospital turns away woman, she gives birth right outside -Sakshi Dayal
-The Indian Express The incident comes just days after a woman was refused treatment at a Community Health Centre (CHC) in Jaunpur district in UP, for not furnishing an Aadhar card or any other kind of identity proof. Gurgaon (Haryana): Denied admission for not furnishing an Aadhaar card, a woman gave birth just outside the doors of Gurgaon’s Civil Hospital Friday as a crowd looked on. Forced to leave the premises, the...
More »Budget 2018 and Agriculture: MSP promise fails to cut ice with farmers -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express For farmers like Bhawane, it’s not the promised MSPs, but the prices for the chana and tur/arhar (pigeon-pea) they would be selling in the next fortnight or so that’s the real concern. Latur: Dhananjay Bhawane has little hope of the standing chana (chickpea) crop on eight out of his 10-acre field fetching anywhere near the government’s minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 4,400 per quintal, when it is...
More »How a Good Yield of Crop became a Problem of Plenty for the Potato Farmers
-Newsclick.in Farmers all over the potato belt are dumping their produces out on the roads, as the Yogi government continues to ignore their plight. Shamsher Singh, a farmer from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, is a worried man. He produced 100 sacks of potatoes this season but could sell only fifty of them that too at the rate below his investment in the produce, in a desperate hope to get some money back in...
More »Pesticide used by Maharashtra victims banned in Punjab -Shishir Arya
-The Times of India NAGPUR (Maharashtra): Even as the issue of pesticide inhalation deaths dog Maharashtra government, Punjab has come up with a ban on monocrotophos as well as 19 other pesticides. As a state can impose ban on a pesticide for not more than 60 days, in Punjab orders to stop issuing fresh licences as well as renewal have been issued. Accidental inhalation of pesticides led to 52 deaths in Vidarbha...
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