-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Friday warned manufacturer, importer and sellers of pre-packaged goods of penalties ranging from fines of up to Rs 1 lakh or prison terms up to a year for repeat offence of not printing the post-GST RATes on product labels. The consumer affairs ministry has come out with the new norm for affixing the revised maximum retail price (MRP) on the old stocks,...
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Who's benefiting from crop insurance: SC to government -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Continuing suicides and intermittent protests by farmers across the country prompted the Supreme Court on Thursday to ask why the much publicised Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMBFY) had not provided relief to the hapless farmers. While the government said that it is the first year and they are ironing out the problems, a look at the details of this first year's implementation throws up more systemic...
More »Prevent farmers' suicides RATher than give compensation, SC tells TN -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu "Your job is to take steps to prevent farmers’ suicides and not go around distributing compensation after the suicides", the Supreme Court told the Tamil Nadu government on Friday. The court said the “actual job” of the government is to “directly address the ground reality of farmers suicides”. “Your approach has to be preventive and not compensatory,” a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A.M. Khanwilkar told Additional Solicitor General P....
More »Stop Banks From Humiliating Farmers, Supreme Court Tells Tamil Nadu -A Vaidyanathan and Shylaja Varma
-NDTV The Supreme Court asked the Tamil Nadu government to install a process by which farmers can report misbehavior by bank officials while trying to make them pay up. New Delhi: The government's job is to prevent farmers from committing suicide and not distribute compensation after they have died, the Supreme Court told Tamil Nadu in strong words today, asking it to ensure that no coercive action is taken against...
More »No fingerprints, no RATion for lepers -Parveen Arora
-The Tribune Online public distribution system does not recognise beneficiary Karnal: The online public distribution system has become a hurdle for 65 leprosy-affected families in Indra Chakravarti Gram on the outskirts of Karnal as they are unable to get RATion through this system. Most of them have lost their fingers due to the disease while the fingers of others have no prints. The affected families have raised the issue with the District Food...
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