-Livemint.com * Average income of farm suicide families was just Rs.3,523 per month in 2016-17, below Rs.4,561 estimated by NSSO: study * The study found that 92% of farm suicide families were not enrolled under the centre’s flagship crop insurance scheme NEW DELHI: Agricultural households are trying to cope with the suicide of an earning member of the family by borrowing more, skimping on food and even taking recourse to bonded labour, a...
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IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan resigns over 'lack of freedom of expression' -SR Praveen
-The Hindu “We got into the service thinking that we can provide voice to people, but then we ended up with our own voice being taken away from us,” said the Kerala-born IAS officer THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan from the AGMUT cadre, who came into the limelight for his anonymous participation in the flood relief efforts in Kerala last year, has resigned from service. The officer, who has been serving as...
More »Need to eliminate distrust within PRIvate sector, 'extraordinary' steps needed: NITI Aayog on slowdown
-The Indian Express Explaining the origins of the present economic situation, the Niti Aayog vice-chairman said: "The entire episode started with indiscriminate lending during 2009-14 leading rise in non-performing assets (NPAs) post-2014." The Centre’s policy think tank Niti Aayog stated Thursday that the prevalent slowdown in the country’s economy is due to the distrust amongst the PRIvate sector where the credit situation is stagnant. “Nobody is trusting anybody else… within the...
More »Niti Aayog chief rings the alarm bell, calls for unprecedented steps
-The Indian Express While blaming a large part of the problem on the high credit growth between 2004 and 2011, when it grew 27 per cent and resulted in a build-up of NPAs, he said it takes a lot for the government which has inherited all the 'systems and inertia'. New Delhi: Taking cognizance of the bad liquidity situation in the financial sector and weak PRIvate investment in the economy, Rajiv...
More »Data: Is India facing population explosion as the PRIme Minister claimed? -Varun B Krishnan
-The Hindu In his Independence Day speech, PRIme Minister Narendra Modi touched upon the need to control 'population explosion' in India. However, the growth rate of the country's population has been falling since 1971. The Total Fertility Rate (the average number of children borne by a woman in her lifetime) has also been falling across most States. India's population growth rate peaked between 1961 and 1971 and has been falling since. The...
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