-PTI NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday the plea of farmers' organisations challenging legality of the fresh promulgation of the land acquisition ordinance by the Narendra Modi-LED government. "We will have it on Monday," a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra said, when senior advocate Indira Jaisingh, appearing for farmers' organisations sought urgent hearing of the petition. The farmers' organisations, in their plea...
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Punjab farmers show little interest in solar water pumps -Vijay C Roy
-Business Standard In Punjab, about 70% of the total net irrigated area is being irrigated by tube wells Chandigarh: Punjab farmers are not inclined towards installing solar water pumps for irrigation, despite a subsidy of 30 per cent offered by the new and renewable energy ministry (MNRE). According to the government data, only 1,955 solar power water pumps were instalLED by farmers in the state during 2000-2015. In Punjab, about 70 per cent...
More »NREGA: Each household got only 39 job days last year -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The gaps in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) continue to widen despite the scheme being in its tenth year. The last year (2014-15) has turned out to be worst year of the scheme since its inception in terms of the average number of days of employment provided to each household. The MGNREGA, introduced in February 2006 by the UPA government, promises 100 days...
More »How to get ourselves a better land law -Sanjoy Chakravorty
-The Hindu Business Line The Congress law and the BJP's amended version both fail to address the lack of transparency in property deals A toxic mix of hypocrisy, amnesia, opportunism, ignorance, and paternalism has LED to a mess on the land acquisition legislation. It seems certain that whatever law we end up with is going to be bad law. It will not serve the primary purpose of any eminent domain law -...
More »Lawyers, Prashant Bhushan slam Modi for 'five-star activists' remark
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Activists and lawyers have attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that "five-star activists" were driving the judiciary, saying the remarks were unacceptable and sought to question the legitimacy of activists. Rebel AAP leader Prashant Bhushan, whose petitions LED to several important interventions by the Supreme Court on issues ranging from 2G scam to coal scam and Radia tapes, said, "It is a bit rich...
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