-Down to Earth Governments in India define farmers as those who own land, which is usually not the case with women Women farmers from six states demanded a comprehensive agriculture policy that would recognise them and offer relief and compensation to the kin of male farmers who had commit suicide, at a recent event in the national capital. Around 60 women farmers from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Punjab took...
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Will the Budget offer some solace to farm widows? -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line They await a comprehensive relief and rehabilitation package from the Centre “The governments here have been asleep for far too long. They should listen to us and solve our problems. If they can’t, they should just go,” thundered Vidya More, a 38-year-old farmer widow from Osmanabad district of Maharashtra. Her frustration is understandable; her husband committed suicide about eight years ago when he couldn’t get enough from his two-acre...
More »Civil society presses for an increase in budgetary allocation for MGNREGA in FY 2020-21
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 27 January, 2020 As the Indian economy continues to languish, the government ignores the advice given by several noted economists, including that of the most recent Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee, to improve the functioning of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The economy is facing blow after blow. India has the highest rates of unemployment in the past 45 years and food inflation...
More »States stare at over Rs.1 lakh crore revenue gap post withdrawal of GST compensation
-PTI At the time of implementation of the Goods and Services Tax on July 1, 2017, the Centre had promised to compensate states for loss of revenue for five years at an agreed formula States might be facing a consolidated revenue gap of up to Rs.1.23 lakh crore on account of withdrawal of compensation after the five-year GST transition period ends on June 30, 2022, says a report by economic think tank...
More »GST pits angry states against Centre -Paran Balakrishnan
-The Telegraph Lower compensation beyond 2022 could be one way out A showdown is looming in Delhi over the GST, the country’s biggest tax revamp since independence that was implemented three years ago. Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac has already fired the opening shots. He will be in the capital next Wednesday for a GST Council meeting and he’s declared that he will be heading to the Supreme Court if he doesn’t...
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