-The Hindu Business Line Stagnation in the area under cultivation and marginal growth in yields have capped domestic output growth, says a report Mangaluru: Even while the import-dependent edible oils market in India has been affected by geopolitical factors, the domestic production of oilseeds remains below the global average. The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of oilseeds production in India has remained at 1.94 per cent between 2011-12 and 2020-21, as against global...
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Vulnerable To Frauds, Fakes & Breaches: Why Govt Auditor Served A Warning To Aadhaar -Saurav Das
-Article-14.com India’s national auditor says that Aadhaar, the national identity database and one of the world’s largest, is not finding and plugging leaks as it should. That is leading to rising frauds, hacks, data breaches and other misuse. Some of its failures have denied government services to the country’s most vulnerable. Experts advise restricting Aadhaar’s use and spread, but the government is not open to even addressing or fixing its problems. New...
More »What a Scathing Audit on Mining in Jharkhand Tells Us About CAG's Toothlessness -Himanshu Upadhyaya
-TheWire.in A performance audit brings home the point of what happens when the national auditor is denied access to information and records. A recently concluded performance audit on the functioning of District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Trusts in Jharkhand has indicted the state’s Mining and Geology Department for failing to furnish the actual figures of collections from mining leaseholders. Bringing the sad state of affairs to public notice, the national auditor said, “There were...
More »Dr. Gopal Krishna, law and policy researcher, and a member of the Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties, interviewed by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi (TheLeaflet.in)
-TheLeaftlet.in ‘Convergence of all sensitive databases is another unmet open constitutional challenge’, says law and policy researcher, Dr. Gopal Krishna THE Comptroller and Auditor General of India [CAG] published an audit report titled ‘Functioning of Unique Identification Authority of India’ on April 6, 2022. The Aadhaar project, established through the Unique Identification Authority of India [UIDAI] in January 2009, has generated more than 129.04 crore Aadhaars till the end of March 2021....
More »Rethinking agrarian suicides in India -Sthanu R Nair
-The New Indian Express First, existing studies have analysed the intensity of farmer suicides in isolation, i.e. without comparing farmer suicides with those by other professionals. Farmer suicides have always been a highly debated issue in the public discourse on agriculture sector performance in India. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, 3,58,164 people engaged in the farming profession have committed suicide in India from 1995 to 2019. Though these numbers...
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