-TheWire.in Ideally, the government should INCrease the work entitlement for MGNREGA to at least 150 days, double the budget and put in place an urban employment guarantee act. Let’s start with those who did well over the last 10 months. The Sensex index crossed the 50,000 benchmark for the first time on January 21, 2021, with a whopping 70% INCrease sINCe April 2020. The Oxfam inequality report, just released, gives an idea of...
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Neglect of small, marginal farmers: Why little space for livestock in India's agri-budgets -Sanjib Pohit
-Counterview.net It seems that that there is a complete breakdown of trust between the Union government and farmers. The multiple rounds of negotiations, offer to negotiate clause by clause of the farms’ bills fail to convINCe the farmers. As a result, there is no sign that the sit-in by the farmers around Delhi’s border would go up in the near future. It appears to have tuned into a question of ego...
More »Hyderabad sees rise in groundwater levels -Siddharth Rao
-TelanganaToday.in Officials attribute this to copious rainfall and rainwater harvesting in the city Hyderabad: The year 2020 might not be one that everyone wants to remember. But for those watching the groundwater tables of Hyderabad, the Water Year of 2020-2021 has been one of a steady, encouraging rise. In the Hyderabad division, the mean groundwater level rose from 5.37 metres below ground level (mbgl) in December 2019 to 3.48 mbgl in December 2020,...
More »Climate crisis lies at the heart of farmer protests in India -Omair Ahmad
-IndiaClimateDialogue.net Protests by Indian farmers against three new farm laws have deep roots in INCome insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and INCentives that promote the overuse of water The protests by Indian farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinances have gone from sporadic in August 2020 to the biggest peaceful civil society protest in the world. Despite 11 rounds of talks and the creation of a committee by...
More »In agri-credit, small farmers are still outside the fence -AS Mittal
-The Hindu The agriculture sector’s performance has not been commensurate with the INCreasing subsidised credit it receives Farmers on the warpath would mean that agriculture reforms have again occupied centrestage not just in the minds of the politicians but also policymakers. To enable small farmers to diversify their crops or improve their INCome they must have access to credit at reasonable rates of interest. This has been an agenda of the triad...
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