The government should immediately announce a 10% increase in the floor price of cotton and rice to protect farmer incomes if it imposes a ban on the export of these commodities, India's two most economically significant cash crops, according to the Commission of Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), a body which advises the government on the pricing policy for major farm produce. "Any ban on export is an implicit tax on...
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Post-CAG report, Congress wants Raman Singh to quit
-The Hindu Chhattisgarh government indicted for favouring firm in award of coal block The Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, citing the contents of a Comptroller and Auditor General's report that has indicted the State government for flouting norms in the award of a coal block to a firm owned by recently elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ajay Sancheti who, the party said, is “close...
More »Agriculture Ministry may up cotton estimates to 35.2 mn bales for 2011-12
-PTI The Agriculture Ministry is likely to revise upwards the country's cotton production estimate by 3.5 per cent to a record 35.2 million bales for the current marketing year, a government official said. The ministry releases four advance estimates at different stages of crop growth. In its second advance estimate, cotton production was pegged at 34 million bales for the ongoing 2011-12 marketing year ending September. "The cotton production has slightly improved and...
More »The thin red line
-The Indian Express CRPF in Abhujmaad shows how ‘liberated zone’ is a self-serving myth for Maoists and govt In a never-before feat, the CRPF entered the mysterious heart of Maoist territory last month — over 6,000 sq km of jungle splayed across Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Abhujmaad, literally, the unknown hills, has been left to itself after the Maoists moved here in the 1980s and, having found no trace of administration, declared it...
More »Indirect ways to kill RTI, PMO refuses info on more than one query by Chetan Chauhan
Civil society pressure may have forced the government to keep proposed changes in the Right To Information (RTI) Act in abeyance but the information officers are quietly implementing them. The government has proposed restrictions on RTI applications that only one issue can be raised in one application and it should not be more than 250 words. But, it had to withdraw amendments following objection by RTI proponents such as National Advisory...
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