-Tribune India Policy shift towards market-oriented management will hit marginal farmers hard There is unfolding of the policy of the NDA government towards agriculture. Contrary to election speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government has kept quiet about the Swaminathan Commission report about fixing the MSP of agricultural commodities at cost plus 50 per cent. At the same time, the government has given indication towards reduced FCI operations. It has been...

Is it the case that lack of Central financial assistance is restricting the Growth of Gram Nyayalayas? Available Government documents and reports corroborate this doubt.   Shri Kapil Sibal who was the Law and Justice Minister during the UPA rule while answering a question on 18 December, 2013 said that since the commencement of the Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008, an amount of Rs. 3425.8 lakh was provided to the states as...

-Livemint.com The nominal agricultural gross domestic product Growth is down this fiscal year, but credit Growth to agriculture is up Here's a strange fact: nominal agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) Growth is down this fiscal year, but credit Growth to agriculture is up; and while nominal industrial GDP is up a bit, credit Growth to industry is down. Please click here to read more. ...

-Frontline.in   The Modi government has apparently realised that the private sector is not up to the task of driving Growth. It hopes to fund its neoliberal dream of India becoming the fastest-growing emerging market through a combination of off-Budget borrowing and drastic expenditure reduction in key social sectors. IT will soon be a year since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office at the Centre....

-The Indian Express Indian farmers are under stress this year. Earlier, many of them lost their crops in the kharif season, which was almost a drought with monsoon rains falling 12 per cent below their long-period average. Now unseasonal rains have impacted them adversely in the rabi season. Agri-GDP Growth this year, expected to be a meagre 1.1 per cent before the unseasonal rains, may fall flat to just zero, if...