-The Indian Express Congress president Rahul Gandhi said the Nyay scheme will achieve twin objectives of giving money to 20 per cent poorest families as well as firing up the Economy. Days after announcing that the Congress would roll out a minimum income scheme guaranteeing Rs 72,000 a year to the bottom most or poorest 20 per cent of households if voted to power, party president Rahul Gandhi Thursday said the...
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Exercise in manipulation -CP Chandrasekhar
-Frontline.in The political Economy.of the Modi regime was characterised by a redistribution of income in favour of a few and a worsened performance in job creation, welfare and alleviating deprivation. AT the end of its five-year term, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s claim that the Indian Economy.has experienced rapid growth during its tenure sounds shallow. The gross domestic product (GDP) numbers, many observers argue, are wrong and possibly fabricated....
More »Is farmer income support a sustainable solution? -Sanjiv Phansalkar
-VillageSquare.in Income support to smallholder farmers is similar to palliative measures like minimum support prices or loan waivers that do not address the problem of an unsustainable population living on a fixed resource base The government in the budget for this year has announced an allocation of Rs 75,000 crore for direct income transfer of Rs 6,000 annually for every farmer who owns less than 2 hectares of land. This amount...
More »Direct tax collection falls short, CBDT raises alarm
-PTI The CBDT has been worried over the direct tax collection work for quite some time The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has rung alarm bells and has asked the Income Tax Department to go for a major assault as the direct tax collection target remains short of about 15%, with the financial year closing less than a week away. On March 26, CBDT Member (Revenue) Neena Kumar shot off a letter...
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-The Hindu Business Line Kochi (Kerala): The two-day conference on ‘Models for Agricultural Development: Experiences of Farmer Producer Companies’, has called for sustained efforts to strengthen, streamline, support and coordinate Farmer Producer Organisations. The conference, jointly organised by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Kerala Agriculture University and Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), mooted a national level consortium to help the FPCs realise their goals and lead the efforts to enhance farmers’...
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