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Forty years of SEWA-Premal Balan & Rutam Vora

-The Business Standard   One of Sewa's triumphs is formation of the Mahila SEWA Sahakari Bank In April 10 this year, SEWA, the Self-Employed Women’s Association, which prefers to describe itself as a cooperative or trade union rather than a microfinance institution (MFI) (though it straddles both spheres), with a membership of 1.3 million women, completed 40 years of its existence. This gives us an ideal opportunity to review its historic contribution to...

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Is India a suicide country?-Anil Padmanabhan

-Live Mint Almost all of us have, through the unfortunate experience of a relative, an acquaintance or a friend, been exposed to the trauma of suicide; personally I have been associated with such an experience thrice. This unnatural and often violent form of death left me confounded (I never saw it coming) and hugely frustrated (at the loss that could have been prevented with timely help). For more than a decade, the...

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Punjab budgets for farm suicides-Sukhdeep Kaur

Punjab’s agricultural sector grew at 1.6 per cent during the 11th Plan against the national average of 3.41 per cent. The growth is tardy owing to near saturation in productivity. The rural debts in Punjab are estimated to be Rs 35,000 crore. The number of indebted rural households in Punjab is 66 per cent, third highest in the country after Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The Government of India’s debt...

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Madhya Pradesh's GDP goes up to 12 per cent-Lemuel Lall

Madhya Pradesh's Gross Domestic Product ( GDP) Growth Rate has swelled to 12 per cent in the last fiscal from 8 per cent in 2010-11, according to the revised estimates, officials said on Friday.  Besides, the state, having agrarian economy, recorded 18 per cent agriculture Growth Rate in 2011 - 12, they added.  The economic and agriculture growth is bound to benefit a huge populace engaged in construction and agriculture sector by...

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'Reforms' for whom?-Ajit Balakrishnan

Two ways to advertise your modernity in India today: first is to carry an iPad, second is to declare that you are firmly on the side of 'reforms' There are two quick ways to advertise your modernity in India today. The first is to carry an iPad when you go for meetings, even if all you do with it is read email; and the second is to declare that you are...

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