-TheHansIndia.com The ongoing drought is fuelling distress migration from districts in Telangana, a trend that was witnessed in the early 2000s. The severe drought conditions for the second consecutive year have led to crop failure, mounting debts, chronic unemployment and failure of the NREGA scheme, especially in the districts of Mahbubnagar, Medak, and Adilabad, forcing large-scale exodus of farmers and others. The fruits of a people’s movement and the world’s largest anti-poverty...
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Insurance sop -TK Rajalakshmi
-Frontline The new crop insurance scheme introduced by the NDA government in an election year does not provide for a comprehensive coverage of all crops, against all forms of damage and at all stages of the crop cycle. IN AN election year, it is but natural that incumbent governments will introduce welfare policies and schemes. But the problem is that distribution of such largesse in a neoliberal dispensation can only be...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has dropped two Supreme Court-appointed food experts from its reconstituted midday-meal monitoring panel and included a member from an RSS-linked organisation with no expertise on such issues. N.C. Saxena and Biraj Patnaik, the two food security commissioners on the first panel set up by former HRD minister M. Pallam Raju, have been dropped by an empowered committee headed by minister Smriti Irani. The top court had...
More »Yogendra Yadav, leader of Swaraj Abhiyan, interviewed by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
-Frontline Former psephologist Yogendra Yadav, now a member of the political collective Swaraj Abhiyan, recently toured India’s drought-affected districts. He called it a Samvedna Yatra. During the tour, he took note of the agony in rural areas affected by what he calls “one of the worst droughts in independent India” The drought, according to him, has left farmers and the larger rural community in extreme distress, leading to damaging changes in...
More »SC asks RBI for details of firms that have defaulted on loans of over Rs 500 crore -Shreeja Sen
-Livemint.com The Supreme Court has asked RBI to submit the information within six weeks New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to furnish details of companies that have defaulted on loans amounting to more than Rs.500 crore in sealed covers within six weeks. The court made the central bank a party to a 2005 case related to bad loans advanced to a few companies...
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