The government has decided to throw its might behind private purchases of farm land overseas to ensure food security for India. The agriculture ministry has sought views from other ministries on an institutional mechanism to extend sovereign support to India Inc's acquisition of farm land abroad that could include guaranteed buyback of harvest from the cultivation overseas. Agriculture secretary PK Basu said that the proposal is in a nascent stage. "We had...
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No excuses for denying RTI info: CIC to officers
-The Deccan Herald The Central Information Commission (CIC) has warned government officials against denying information to an Right to Information (RTI) applicant on the ground that the fee has been wrongly deposited in the name of an officer or has been forwarded through a particular mode. Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra said the officials could not make these excuses in dealing with RTI applications. “We would only like to place it on record...
More »A very poor programme by Surjit S Bhalla
MGNREGA 2.0 should really be MGNREGA 0.0 — it has been outdated from the start, five years ago It is a fact universally acknowledged that India is at a fiscal crossroads. It swerved quite significantly to populism over the last several years, and the consequences of this lurch are that the UPA’s own finance minister is (thankfully) losing sleep over the fiscal burden. More specifically, over the subsidy burden. As we all...
More »It simply can't fail-Abhijit V Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Ashok Kotwal, Milind Murugkar & Bharat Ramaswami
The National Food Security Bill has the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of the poor if properly implemented. However, the Bill in its present form has some easily correctible flaws that could cause huge problems in the future. A couple of simple amendments would greatly simplify the implementation and also allow innovation in the delivery of food subsidy. First, the proposed framework based on three categories of...
More »Trade, bank unions call mega strike on Feb 28
-The Times of India The UPA government is bracing for a mega strike on February 28, backed by trade unions cutting across party lines, in protest against rising prices, disinvestment of profit-making PSUs and violation of labour laws among other reasons. They will be joined by around 8 lakh bank employees who are protesting against reforms and outsourcing of jobs. Almost all sectors, except railways, are likely to come to a stop...
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