-The Indian Express Nitish’s 15 years have seen high growth, especially in welfare indices, spending; industries slower to catch up. New Delhi: As Bihar heads into an election that promises to be a battle of proxies fought between former and present allies, on the state’s economic conditions alone, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar seems to have a clear edge. The state has improved in the last five years in terms of growth of...
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Farmers’ suicides highest in Maharashtra despite loan waiver, reform measures
-The Indian Express In 2017, then Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shetkari Sanman Yojna, a farm loan waiver of Rs 35,000 crore for 89 lakh farmers. Mumbai: DESPITE various farmer welfare schemes, including a loan waiver in 2017, Maharashtra recorded 3,927 farmers’ suicide in 2019 — the highest in the country, which registered a total of 10,281 suicides in the farm sector last year, according to data...
More »Indian Agriculture Needs an Urgent Data-Centric Revamp and Reboot -Siraj Hussain
-TheWire.in Good data is key to informed policymaking. So why isn't it taken seriously? Here’s a fun experiment. Want to compare the procurement of paddy in the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2020-21 (October-September) and the corresponding procurement in 2019-20? It’s not possible because the Food Corporation of India’s (FCI’s) website provides data of procurement as on a certain date but not the data on the same date in the previous year. You...
More »An Ingenious Legislative Approach for States to Undo the Doom Spelled by Central Farm Laws -Philose Koshy
-TheWire.in Rather than being on a collision course with the Centre to oppose recent agriculture laws, constitutionally, state governments have better options at their command to help farmers. The three agriculture laws passed recently by the parliament give rise to several serious issues, that range from matters related to food security to the lives of Indian farmers. One of the major issues among them is related to the constitutionality of these laws,...
More »There is much in the labour codes that needs to be discussed and debated -Ravi Srivastava
-The Indian Express Government’s response to migrants’ plight, economic crisis, has been to unilaterally bring changes in labour laws. But industrial prosperity cannot be built on a race to the bottom for workers. Only weeks ago, India, and the entire world, witnessed the spectacle of the country’s employment precarity pour out on its roads and highways — men, women and children, in distress of having lost jobs, income and shelter, with no...
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