-Hindustan Times The government’s decision to scrap high-value currency has sent wholesale vegetable prices crashing to rock-bottom levels, bringing misery to millions of farmers hoping for good returns for their produce after two successive drought years. Onions sold for just Re 1 per kilogram in wholesale markets at Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch and Mandsaur this week while tomatoes cost less than Rs 2 per kg in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh. A kilogram of cauliflower...
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RBI Rejects RTI Request for Minutes of Demonetisation Decision -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in The official line seems to be, ‘Show me your money but I won’t show you my records’. New Delhi: While the Reserve Bank of India has been forthcoming in placing on its website the minutes of meetings of all committees that provide it with advice, an RTI activist has accused it of deliberately withholding information on the recent demonetisation exercise. Seen against the backdrop of a top finance ministry official –...
More »Two BJP state govts commissioned note Ban research months before Nov 8 -Nitin Sethi & Ishan Bakshi
-Business Standard States sent initial queries for research to NIPFP in Feb-March; Work on research started around July New Delhi: Months before demonetisation, in February-March, the Madhya Pradesh and Haryana state governments had approached the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) to evaluate Pune-based NGO ArthaKranti’s proposals, which include the withdrawal of high-denomination notes. The initial queries for conducting the research from the two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state governments went...
More »For jute industry in Bengal, it's a clicks-and-mortar weave now -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Mill workers being trained to carry out cashless transactions Hooghly: Vijay Bahadur Chauhan, a 57-year-old jute mill worker, is listening attentively to what a Bank official is saying. The official of a public sector Bank is highlighting how a non-Android phone user, without Internet connectivity, can still carry out cashless transactions. Only a handful of workers at Hastings Jute Mill, one of India’s first jute-making factory, which began operations in 1875,...
More »Gwalior farmers pay kids' school fees in paddy -Deshdeep Saxena
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Starved of cash, 15 farmers of a village in Gwalior deposited 45 quintals of paddy as their children's school fees on Saturday. The school management sold the crop at a mandi and got a cheque of Rs 58,500. Bhitarwar region of Gwalior is known as the rice bowl of Madhya Pradesh, and paddy is the main crop of the kharif season. Villages here have run out of...
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