-TheWire.in Over 100 million people face food insecurity if the PDS is not universalised. Meerut: Tek Narayan and Shyam Kishore Singh are migrant labourers who were employed at a construction site earning Rs 300 a day. Since the lockdown was announced, they have been stranded at the site, which is located on the outskirts of Meerut. Their homes are over 1,200 kilometres away in Latehar, one of the most backward districts of...
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As Mills Delay Payments Like Every Year, Lockdown Adds to Sugarcane Farmers' Woes -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Most sugarcane farmers usually sell a part of their produce at local jaggery producing units, but these remain closed at the moment. Meerut: Ankur Kumar is a small farmer with a four-acre farm in Muzaffarnagar’s Vahelna. Like every year, he has sown sugarcane on his field and like every year, he is struggling to get his dues from the sugar mill. “I have deposited 500 quintals so far this season and have...
More »CPCB asks NHAI why it shouldn't be fined Rs 1 crore -Ritam Halder
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Central Pollution Control Board has sent a showcause notice to National Highways Authority of India for flouting construction and demolition waste management rules at two sites — Delhi-Meerut Expressway, UP Gate to Dasna, Ghaziabad, and around the Ghazipur landfill. NHAI has been asked to explain “why the project activities, including all civil works and construction and demolition activities, should not be stopped at (the) above site”...
More »Journalist beaten up and stripped by UP cops -Piyush Rai
-The Times of India Meerut: Just a few hours after the Supreme Court ordered the release of Prashant Kanojia, another TV journalist in west UP's Shamli was brutally assaulted by the SHO of the government railway police (GRP) on Tuesday night. SHO Rakesh Kumar and GRP constable Sanjay Pawar were booked and suspended after videos of the attack went viral on Wednesday. In the clips, the SHO could be seen attacking journalist...
More »Dream crops or farmers' worst nightmare? -Vivek Waghmode, Sandeep Rai and Satyajit Joshi
-The Times of India Mills in Maharashtra and UP, the two states that account for most of India's sugar supply, owe sugarcane farmers Rs 12,700 cr. Yet, farmers do not want to move away from the crop KOLHAPUR/ Meerut: Unrest simmers in districts of western Maharashtra and parts of Uttar Pradesh, considered the sugar bowls of the country, over unpaid cane crushing dues. Despite the problems which beset farmers, however, they have...
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