-The Economic Times With the general election a few months away, the central government has begun crunching the numbers in preparation for a comprehensive programme to help farmers tide over challenges posed by a dip in prices and dwindling incomes. The government is keen on a more substantive intervention than a loan waiver at the central level to alleviate agrarian distress besides stepping up investments in the sector, having concluded that writing...
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Mamata Banerjee asks Bengal departments not to share data with Centre -Madhuparna Das
-The Economic Times KOLKATA: In a first such move, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee instructed state government officials to stop sharing data with the central government. In an administrative meeting in South 24 Paragana district on Thursday, Banerjee said that the state departments would have its own portals and store data on its own. She said that the NDA government accesses all data of the state government and uses those to...
More »Forgotten again: 3 kids starve to death, fury gives way to apathy -Somreet Bhattacharya
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A one-room house near Pandit Chowk in Mandawali has been locked ever since three children—Mansi (8), Sikha (4) and Parul (2)—starved to death here. The tragedy that shook this locality in July is still discussed, but the tide of strong emotions has now ebbed. “Nothing has changed. No new anganwadi centre has come up, nor did anyone ask about the condition of other kids living here....
More »Why the farmer suicide debate is counter-productive to understanding India's agrarian crisis? -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times In the discourse on agriculture, for instance, farmer suicides are cited as the biggest proof of the agrarian crisis in the country by a large section. India’s political economy discourse is often a prisoner of the dictum that when there is no theory, there is a conspiracy theory. Corruption, rather than an accentuated cyclical shock after the global financial crisis, combined with the poor governance structures in Indian...
More »The safety net of the future -Pranab Bardhan
-The Indian Express Insecurity, more than poverty or indebtedness, is the key economic issue that politicians must address If social inequality is the most acutely felt social problem in India, insecurity, more than poverty, is the most acutely felt economic problem. While most measures suggest that only around one-fifth of the population today is under the official poverty line, large sections of those even much above that line are subject to...
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