Maharashtra farmers had taken out a foot march from Nashik to Mumbai in protest over onion PRIces. On Saturday one 58 year old farmer who had attended the foot march died at Shahapur police station in Thane district, informed the All India Kisan Sabha state general secretary Ajit Nawale. The Maharashtra farmers announced on Saturday that they have called off the march following assurance from the state government and the centre....
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CM Adityanath Claims ‘No Farmer Suicides in Last 6 Years In UP’, Data Show 398 Cases - Merin Mathew, Nidhi Jacob
Factchecker.in On March 6, 2023, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claimed that no farmer had died by suicide in the last six years. But, 398 farmers and 731 farm labourers died by suicide between 2017 and 2021 in the state, official data show. “Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh were forced to burn their crops and attempt suicide but in the last six years, no farmer in Uttar Pradesh has died by...
More »Supreme Court rejects Centre's plea for more compensation from Carbide's successor firms - Ashmit Kumar
CNBC-TV18 The Supreme Court rejected the Centre's curative plea for enhanced compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy from US-based firm Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). The court rather asked the government to utilise a sum of Rs 50 crore lying with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to satisfy pending claims of victims. The government had sought an additional Rs 7,844 crore from the UCC successor firms to extend...
More »New Changes to MPLADS Will Make it More Centralised and Less Inclusive - John Brittas
The Wire In a country like India where inequality is so prominent, a development scheme can come a cropper if it lacks inclusivity. The Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) was launched in 1993 to enable parliamentarians to directly contribute towards meeting the development demands of their constituency or state. Despite many deficiencies plaguing the scheme, it stood out mainly on account of the PRInciples of social justice and its...
More »Over 51,000 Teaching Posts in PRImary, 33,000 in Secondary Schools Lying Vacant in Uttar Pradesh - Abdul Alim Jafri
Newsclick There is an acute shortage of teachers in government-run PRImary, upper PRImary and composite schools in Uttar Pradesh, despite the guidelines on the teacher-to-student ratio issued under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) of 2009. The new academic session of Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Board schools is about to begin next month (APRIl 1) but about 51,000 posts of assistant teachers are lying vacant in the...
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