-Economic and Political Weekly Examining the strucTural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis Turning point, this paper finds that there was slow strucTural change in labour markets at the national level. But states such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana are on the verge of the Lewis Turning point with faster non-farm sector growth, high per capita income, urbanisation,...
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Kolams Turning more and more reclusive -S Harpal Singh
-The Hindu NARNOOR (ADILABAD DISTRICT/ Telengana): This vulnerable tribal group has been left out in the cold since the retirement of the development officer about a decade ago. The rate of death due to seasonal diseases is also proportionately higher in this PVTG. For example, about 20 Kolams died in Jainoor and Sirpur (U) mandals out of a total of 65 in the last epidemic season. If anything, the rather reclusive Particularly...
More »The next farm downtrend -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express It's likely that India's crop production this year will be lower compared to 2013-14, given deficient rains both in the southwest (June-September) and northeast (October-December) monsoons impacting kharif as well as rabi plantings. But that by itself needn't be cause for concern. We have seen one-off farm output declines even in 2009-10, 2004-05 and 2002-03, which were also drought years. What should worry us more, instead, is the...
More »MP wants to level Chambal ravines into farmlands -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh government wants to Turn the ravines of Chambal - a unique geographical feaTure once infamous for sheltering dacoits - into agriculTure fields by levelling the twisting hillocks. Considering the undulating and barren topography, the task of levelling the mud ravines for agriculTure seems stupendous, but chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday formally placed the proposal before the Centre when he met Union...
More »When amendment amounts to nullification -Ramaswamy R Iyer
-The Hindu Given industry concerns and the desire to accelerate industrialisation, the government could have reopened the debate on the land act. Instead, it has wholly accepted one perception of the conflict, and sought to undo the compromise embodied in the 2013 Act without a review This article will not go into the question of the propriety of the ordinance route to legislation in this case, but will try to present a...
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