-Business Standard This is the time when farm labour is engaged in the fields which result in a dip in demand for work under MNREGA New Delhi: November is considered the best month for sowing of rabi crops as the winter starts setting in and the residual moisture in soil is still available, lowering farmers reliance on ground water. This is also the time, when farm labour is engaged in the fields and...
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Cash Crunch: Slowdown, more pain ahead, warns Kaushik Basu -George Mathew & Priyanka Sahoo
-The Indian Express According to him, the currency shortage in the country is unlikely to ease any time in the near future. Mumbai: India’s former Chief Economic Advisor and former chief economist of the World Bank, Kaushik Basu has warned the government that the economy would take a turn for the worse next year besides greater suffering for people in the days ahead and of a new form of corruption building...
More »Bengal misses 'clean' cut
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The government has declared 362 towns and cities in 15 states free of open defecation, with Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra topping the chart and Bengal scoring a duck. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan aims to make the whole of India open-defecation-free by 2019. In Gujarat, 167 urban local bodies have been provided with open-defecation-free certificates, followed by 91 in Andhra Pradesh and 70 in Maharashtra. (See chart) "A ward...
More »Cauliflower sells for Rs one a kilo in one Bihar market as demonetisation depresses demand -M Rajshekhar
-Scroll.in Buyers are cutting back on consumption, traders are losing margins, and farmers are paying their workers in kind. At first glance, it looks like any other day at the mandi in Bettiah. Trucks stand next to the concrete arch that leads into the fruit and vegetable market in this small town in northern Bihar. Inside the mandi samiti, as the precinct is called, hawkers sit with baskets bursting with vegetables. The shops...
More »Industries opt for lock down, cut work hours to tide over slump caused by demonetisation -Aakash Ahuja
-The Times of India RUDRAPUR: Many of the over 700 factories in the industrial belt of Udham Singh Nagar have either slowed down production or opted for a short-term lock down due to problems in transport of goods and a dip in demand. Demonetisation of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 has hit not just small industrial units but also giants like Parle and Britannia, many of which have...
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