The District Rural Development Agency has hiked the wage from January 1 ERODE: Hike in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) wage has got Erode farmers worried about labour shortage. Following State Government’s instruction, the District Rural Development Agency, which oversees NREGS implementation, hiked the wage January 1 onwards by Rs. 20 to Rs. 100 a day. Under NREGS below poverty line families get work for 100 days a year, which is...
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Swaminathan for revolution in small farm management by T Nandakumar
A revolution in small farm management is essential to revitalise the country’s agriculture sector, according to noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan. Corporate farming would be detrimental to India. Farming was the largest private sector enterprise in the country, and any bid to take away land from the farmer would be counter-productive. But a symbiotic relationship between farmers and industry, resulting in a win-win situation for both, would be good, he...
More »Govt rings alarm bells on rising sea level off India coast by Shaju Philip
There is an alarming rise in sea level along the Indian coast since 2004, said Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences. Addressing the Indian Science Congress session on ‘Weather, Climate and Environment,’ Nayak said the seal-level rise during 2004-08 along the Indian coast was about 9 mm. The global average sea-level rise from 1961 to 2003 was 1.8 mm per year. The annual rate along the Indian coast was...
More »Can’t use RTI to question judge’s verdict: SC by Krishnadas Rajagopal
The Supreme Court on Monday said the Right to Information Act would not be used to question the intention of a judge for giving a particular verdict. A judge need not furnish reasons under the RTI on why he chose to give this verdict and not another, noted a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan. “He (a judge) cannot go on explaining his judgments. The...
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The Supreme Court on Monday held that the Right to Information Act cannot be used by a litigant to question the basis or correctness of a judicial order. A Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S. Chauhan dismissed a special leave petition filed by a litigant Khanapuram Gandaiah against a judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court rejecting the plea for giving reasons for the judicial order under...
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