-Hindustan Times Farmers have experienced a growing MISmatch between their production efforts and incomes under the Narendra Modi government. The coming union budget will have to find a balance between two contradictory FDs: farm-distress and fiscal discipline. The choice is not going to be an easy one. Ignoring farm-distress in the last full-fledged budget before elections could be politically suicidal. Meanwhile, there are at least two things that could make the government slip...
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2017 witnessed a 38% rise in social media URL blocking -Yuthika Bhargava
-The Hindu Twitter, Facebook and YouTube content was covered by official action A total of 1,329 social media URLs were blocked or removed on the recommendation of a government committee to deal with “objectionable content” last year till November 2017. This is an increase of nearly 38% from 964 social media URLs blocked or removed for the whole of 2016. URLs that were blocked or removed on account of court orders during the same...
More »Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, interviewed by Mohit M Rao (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The former Chief Economic Adviser on India’s current slowdown in economic growth and the mix of policies needed to reignite it In a career spanning more than four decades, econoMISt Kaushik Basu has donned many hats. He was Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (2009-2012) and Chief EconoMISt of the World Bank (2012-2016). At present, he is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies...
More »Beneficiaries not using subsidy amount to buy foodgrain: Puducherry -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Puducherry administration has approached the Union food ministry to seek a return to the system of distributing subsidised foodgrain, instead of crediting the subsidy to the bank accounts of beneficiaries. The Union territory administration has claimed the beneficiaries are not using the subsidy amount to buy foodgrain. "The chief minister recently put up this proposal before Union minister Ram Vilas paswan. The UT administration...
More »Landless cultivators to be farmers too! Change of definition to extend assorted benefits to 14 cr currently excluded -Prabhudatta MIShra
-The Financial Express Over 14 crore households who cultivate on land owned by others under a formal lease agreement or even under a temporary arrangement overseen by the gram panchayats or other official functionaries may soon start getting assorted sops doled out to “farmers” by the government just as their land-owing counterparts do. According to official sources, the definition of farmer will be changed via a gazzette notification to include cultivators...
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