-The Indian Express NITI Aayog meeting notes it will bring in ‘more control, curb growth’ New Delhi: Successive governments in India have neglected the medical devices sector. For over 12 years, a proposed legislation, the Medical Device Regulation Bill, has awaited enactment. Advertising The Bill was first drafted in 2006 when the UPA was in power. It was never legislated. Under the NDA, a Group of Ministers (GoM) was constituted under Finance Minister Arun...
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Three years on, Bank credit to MSEs continue to shrink -Mayur Shetty
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The share of Bank credit to micro and small enterprises (MSEs) has been shrinking since three years — from 5.9% in October 2015 to 4.5% in October 2018, data from the RBI show. While it is clear the sector is facing problems due to the double whammy of demonetisation and GST, it’s unclear whether MSEs are hit by liquidity issues or whether Banks do not find them...
More »Kisan politics shows the way to a possible populism -Mukul Kesavan
-The Telegraph There is something heroic about tens of thousands of farmers marching and wringing concessions from a BJP state government The farmers’ rally in Delhi, the Kisan Mukti March, organised by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) happened the day after the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and just before the assembly elections in Rajasthan. The politics of the rally was different from the politics of elections but the...
More »Kisan Mukti March: Opposition rallies behind farmers -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Rahul Gandhi, Kejriwal and other leaders share stage, demand loan waiver Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal shared the stage for the first time at Friday’s Kisan Mukti March, leading a show of Opposition unity in support of the farmers’ demands for fair prices and debt relief. Farmer leaders welcomed the political support as a sign that the agrarian crisis is now on top of...
More »Farmers gather in Delhi to push for policy change -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu To march to Parliament Street on November 30; Opposition leaders to address rally. Durgam Chinna’s life turned upside down last October, when her 40-year old husBand Venkatayya was found dead in his cotton fields in the village of Ankushapur, in the Jayashankar district of Telengana. Faced with mounting debts which had touched ?8 lakh, the tenant farmer consumed pesticide. For his widow and three children, his death was just the beginning...
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