-TheNewsMinute.com Raw materials of food, including oil, rice and rava, are being delivered to the students’ homes. In a gesture of goodwill, the Kerala government has started measures to deliver ingredients for mid-day meals to over three lakh children studying in anganwadis, which have been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is to ensure the undisrupted supply of meals to the students. Since Tuesday, schools, colleges, educational institutions and anganwadis have been...
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Domestic demand must play a greater role in India’s growth story -Jahangir Aziz
-The Indian Express Policymakers need to stop thinking about India as a perennially supply-constrained economy focusing almost all policies and reforms to easing these constraints. Instead, it is time to let domestic demand play a greater role in India’s growth story. India’s fourth quarter GDP growth (calendar year 2019) printed another sub-5 per cent growth rate. It would have been lower had it not been for the large downward revisions to previous...
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-PTI "From October 2014 to August 2019, as many as 14,591 farmers have committed suicide, of which 5,430 cases are disqualified for any help, while another 214 cases are pending for enquiry," Vijay Wadettiwar said. Mumbai: As many as 14,591 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra between October 2014 and August 2019, state Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar said on Monday. He also said that 1,286 farmers ended their lives in 2019...
More »Flood-affected people threaten agitation over unkept promises -Rishikesh Bahadur Desai
-The Hindu Officers admit that additional amount announced by CM yet to be paid to farmers Belagavi (Karnataka): Delay in distribution of flood Relief in Belagavi and surrounding districts is riling up farmers and they have threatened a series of agitations across North Karnataka. Officers admit that while that the government has paid compensation fixed by the calamity Relief fund norms to eligible farmers, the additional amount of ?10,000 per acre promised by...
More »Farm suicides: Under-reported realities of Indian women farmers -Shilpa Shaji
-Newsclick.in According to NCRB, as many as 3,53,803 farm suicides have taken place between 1995 and 2018 across the country. 85.81% of the deceased were male farmers, indicating that around 50,188 female farmers had ended their lives in this period. “I had to struggle eight long years to get one acre of land transferred to my name after the death of my husband,” said Vidya More, a 38-year-old woman farmer who had...
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