-The Hindu In four States, auditors’ wages delayed as funds from Centre are yet to arrive The Union Rural Development Ministry (MoRD) has told States that failure to carry out social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) will invite action, including withholding of funds. However, it is the Centre that bears the administrative cost of these Social Audit Units, and inordinate delay in the release of funds...
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Poor implementation of Indian policies is oldest excuse. Real problem is in field administration. -Rashmi Sharma
-ThePrint.in Panchayats or local elected governments are supposed to lead socio-economic development but they have no funds to spend as per needs. The growing political importance of ‘good governance’ in politics today brings the focus back on India’s chronic implementation failure problem. It pervades all development sectors like education, health care, law enforcement and Infrastructure, but our understanding of what causes these failures is imperfect. In fact, ‘implementation failure’ is embedded in the...
More »Ensure pastoralists covered under government schemes: Centre to states -Shagun
-Down to Earth So far livestock-related schemes were only catering to settled farmers, herders The Union government admitted that India’s pastoralist communities fell through the cracks when it comes to them benefitting from various schemes. It has urged states with sizeable population of such communities to work to prevent this. There is a significant population of pastoralists or cattle herders across India who move from one place to another to graze their animals....
More »Deregulation of Agricultural Marketing: How has it Affected the APMC System in Karnataka? -Ayush Kumar
-Foundation for Agrarian Studies In December 2020, in line with the Central Farm Laws, the Government of Karnataka passed an amendment to the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) Act, 1966. This amendment reduced the scope of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) by effectively ending their status as the only place (with some exceptions) where wholesale agricultural trade was permitted by law. Despite the three Central Farm Laws being...
More »Concessional customs duty on imported edible oil extended till March -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com The government had in October 2021 announced concessional import duty on crude soybean oil, crude palm oil and crude sunflower oil till March 2022, which was once extended till end of September. This has now again been extended till next March, as per the order. NEW DELHI: The finance ministry has extended concessional basic customs duty and agriculture and Infrastructure development cess applicable on edible oils by six months till end...
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