-The Hindu Business Line To make farmers aatmanirbhar, the governments should instead nurture a healthy credit culture and empower them via a robust ecosystem rather than relieving all the borrowers, irrespective of their distress levels. Only 4 out of the 21 political parties lost the election (either at the Centre or State) following the electoral promise and implementation of a farm loan waiver (FLW) scheme started by Haryana’s Devi Lal government. A...
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Poor Wages, Gruelling Work: Plight of Haryana Anganwadi Workers Who Protested for Four Months -Deepanshu Mohan, Sakshi Chindaliya and Jignesh Mistry
-TheWire.in The agitation, which was called off recently, shows how lakhs of women across India engaged in providing essential services have been neglected for years, with no end in sight for their troubles. Slogans of “Pakka kaam kacchi naukri nahi chalegi, nahi chalegi (being called an honorary worker while doing the job of a permanent employee is unacceptable to us)” and “Beti padhao, beti bachao- ka nara jhuta hai (educate your daughter,...
More »Health expert urges govt to resolve debate over Covid death toll -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Centre questions each estimation exercise, says the numbers have emerged from extrapolation, limited datasets and unproven assumptions New Delhi: A top public health expert has urged the government to help resolve the intense debate over India’s Covid-19 death toll by using the population census later this year to directly count the dead over the past two years. Prabhat Jha, professor at the Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto, Canada, who...
More »India's R-Value Crosses 1 For The First Time In Three Months Amid Spike In Covid-19 Cases
-PTI/ Outlook India The country's R-value, steadily increasing over the last few weeks, is 1.07 for the week between April 12-18, according to Sitabhra Sinha. In the preceding April 5-11 week, it was 0.93. India's effective reproduction number (R) for Covid, an indicator of how quickly the infection is spreading, has increased to over one for the first time since January, estimates a researcher from Chennai's Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The country's R-value,...
More »Summer crops may be damaged this year due to temperature rise: Experts -Raju Sajwan
-Down to Earth States accuse the Centre of not taking any initiative to help them increase production of summer crops Agricultural experts have warned that an unusually hot March and April this year may cause damage to summer crops, which are grown in the Indian subcontinent between ‘Rabi’ (winter) and ‘Kharif’ (monsoon) crops. States have also accused the Centre of not taking any initiative to help them increase production of summer crops...
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