-PTI/ ThePrint.in Assets of Gangakhed Sugar & Energy Limited and Yogeswari Hatcheries and Gangakhed Solar Power Limited were provisionally attached under PMLA. New Delhi: Properties worth Rs 255 crore have been attached in connection with a money laundering probe linked to a case of alleged agricultural loan fraud and duping of farmers in Maharashtra, the Enforcement Directorate said on Wednesday. “Assets worth Rs 255 crore of Gangakhed Sugar & Energy Limited (GSEL), Yogeswari...
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Will 1,646 fodder camps for 11 lakh cattle count in Maharashtra polls? -Harish Damodaran & Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Out of the 1,646 fodder camps, the maximum were opened in Beed (549, with 3.49 lakh animals), Ahmednagar (507 and 3.34 lakh), Solapur (248 and 1.75 lakh) and Osmanabad (92 and 0.85 lakh) districts. Pune/ Solapur: The southwest monsoon season is over, but Kakaso Gaikwad’s “chara chavani” (fodder camp) still has 540 animals. At its peak — from late-April till almost the end of September — there were...
More »Conserve rainwater: PM to CMs -Rajesh Kumar
-The Pioneer New Delhi: Concerned about the water crisis and drought conditions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote to Chief Ministers of all States advising them to conserve rainwater during the forthcoming monsoon. The PM had earlier written a personal letter to 'Gram Pradhans'(village chiefs) urging them to conserve rainwater. The issue of drought conditions and water scarcity was discussed at the highest level at the NITI Aayog's governing council meeting last week....
More »Marathwada: Zero rabi crop, bone dry wells, serial hunger strikes in despair -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express More than half the villages where the state Groundwater Survey and Development Agency’s summer survey found a depletion of over 3 metres from the five-year average are in Marathwada — 1,467 villages. Beed (Maharastra), Mumbai: Twice over the last six months, residents of Chaklamba village in Beed district’s Georai taluka have gone on a relay hunger strike in 43-degree temperatures, spending scorching afternoons in the shade of a...
More »Migrant Labour in Maharashtra's Sugar Industry -Kumar Shiralkar, Mukta Kulkarni, Vivek Ghotale and Sominath Gholwe
-Economic and Political Weekly This article summarises the scenario of migration of sugar cane harvesting workers from Beed, a drought-prone district from Marathwada region, Maharashtra. Seasonal and distressed migration of the sugar cane harvesting workers, which happens to be the most vulnerable section of the sugar industry in Maharashtra, remains a largely overlooked arena in scholarly discussions as well as policy circles. Hence this article, based on a study conducted by...
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