-The Economic Times blog Finance minister Arun Jaitley was correct when he stated in April that constitutional constraints do not empower his government to tax agricultural income, implying that he is not constrained from amending the Income-Tax Act. B R Ambedkar, in framing the Constitution, was vehemently critical of British land revenue system, the foundation for which was laid during the Mughal period, and strengthened by the East India Company, which...
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'Tur' Farmers in Maharashtra remind Modi of his 'chai pe charcha' promise -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil
-Livemint.com At some 200-plus tur procurement centres in Maharashtra, where Nafed had agreed to purchase the crop till 31 May, the desperation of thousands of Farmers represent all that is wrong with government intervention in the agriculture market Wardha, Hinganghat (Vidarbha): Santosh Borkute, a cotton and tur cultivator in Amla village of Wardha district in Vidarbha region, has learned from Marathi newspapers that the Narendra Modi government has completed three years in...
More »It's a Farmers' movement in Maharashtra, not a strike -Yogendra Yadav
-The Tribune Farmers are determined to take it to a logical conclusion SOMETHING unusual happened last week. Farmers in Maharashtra organised an amazing ‘strike’. Last month Farmers in a village of Ahmednagar decided that they would stop sending their produce — food grains, vegetables, etc. — to cities from June 1. Soon, the call was adopted by the Farmers of the entire district. Before anyone could realise, this resolve had extended to...
More »MS Swaminathan, father of Green Revolution, interviewed by Prabodh Krishna (BusinessWorld)
-BusinessWorld.in The recent past saw upsurge of Farmers in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu over demands of implementing Swaminathan Commission's recommendation and the protests are fast spreading their arms in other states as well Keeping in mind that more than half of the Indian population depends on agriculture but the share of agriculture in GDP is nowhere near expectation, in 2002 the then National Democratic Alliance Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee called...
More »5 killed as shots fired at MP Farmers' protest, CM accuses Cong of instigating violence
-The Times of India INDORE: At least five persons were killed and over a dozen injured when shots were fired during a protest by Farmers in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. Curfew has been clamped in Mandsaur and Pipliamandi and internet connectivity has been severed. The death toll, it is feared, may rise. The Farmers were demanding that the government grant them a loan waiver and set a minimum...
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