The labour ministry may get about 36% more money under planned allocation in the Budget for the year starting 1 April to expand welfare programmes such as health insurance for the poor. “We are getting Rs. 1,300 crore under planned allocation in the coming Budget,” labour secretary Prabhat Chaturvedi said. The ministry was allocated Rs. 956 crore under the same Plan in the current year’s budget allocation. The labour ministry will also...
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Activist Outrage at the UN Climate Conference by Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle
During protests against the WTO (World Trade Organization) meetings in Cancún, Mexico in September 2003, Lee Kyung Hae, a South Korean farmer and La Via Campesina member, martyred himself by plunging a knife into his heart while standing atop the barricades at Kilometer Zero. Around his neck was a sign that read, "WTO Kills Farmers." At that time, activists around the world were rallying under the umbrella of the global justice...
More »Delhi Govt. for protecting rights of street Vendors
The Delhi Government will soon initiate the process to make laws for protecting the livelihood and social security rights of more than three lakh street Vendors and will instruct the concerned civic bodies, enforcement department and the police to put a halt on all eviction drives, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has assured a delegation of National Association of Street Vendors of India. The Chief Minister assured that the Government...
More »Neoliberal illogic by Prabhat Patnaik
The class bias in government policy is clear in the decision to release a small amount of foodgrain in the open market to tackle inflation. MOST people would agree that there is a strong element of speculation underlying the current inflation and that forward trading contributes to it. Yet the government, though it has banned forward trading in certain commodities under public pressure, is curiously reluctant to see this point....
More »Food price inflation worries India
India's food prices have increased significantly over the weekend, leaving customers and shopkeepers extremely worried. Reuters reports the price of onions in particular has peaked. Onions are currently selling between Rs 70-80 per kilogram ($AU1.56- $AU1.78), after being worth Rs 45 ($AU1) only a few days ago. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) reports food inflation climbed nearly to a year's high of 18.32 per cent on December...
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