-TheWire.in The Centre’s off-record instructions through WhatsApp and a squeeze on funds made the rural work programme crash after a roaring first half of the year. This is second of a two-part series. Read part one here. The WhatsApp messages from the central rural development ministry to states had a chilling effect on the work given under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) after the roaring demand Growth in the...
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Govt hopes 4% Growth in agri sector
-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: The Centre is hoping to achieve a Growth rate of 8 per cent in the economy and 4 per cent in the agriculture sector this year. “We are growing at the rate of 7 per cent and this year we hope our agriculture Growth will be more than 4 per cent,” Arjun Meghwal, Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, has said. Addressing the valedictory...
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-The Hindu Tiruchi: The farmers of Lalgudi block said absence of summer showers had brought down the Growth of the green manure. There has been a growing awareness among farmers in raising green manure for enriching the fertility of the soil. A farmer of Peruvalanallur in Lalgudi block, V. Padmanabhan, a retired PWD Executive Engineer, said that he raised green manure — daincha — on 13 acres, for use in his paddy fields....
More »Deadly dengue under data wraps -Sanjay Mandal
-The Telegraph The death of more than 50 dengue patients in eight city hospitals this year offers a peek into the severity of the menace but the extent of the crisis remains unknown in the absence of figures from the government. To put things in perspective, the disease caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito had claimed less than 20 lives across the state last year. The Mamata Banerjee government's decision to prefer secrecy...
More »India is finally trying to clear the air around its controversial GDP numbers -Madhura Karnik
-Scroll.in / qz.com The government has set up five committees to review data to calculate major indicators such as the GDP, IIP and inflation. More than 19 months after the statistical tumult began over India’s GDP, the Narendra Modi government is finally trying to fix the mess. India’s GDP numbers have been receiving flak since a new calculation was introduced in January 2015. Overnight, India’s GDP Growth accelerated from 4.7% to 6.9%. It...
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