Money makes news. When it is found, promiscuously. And when it is lost, presumptively. And when it is found to lie hidden. Also when it stands brazenly, as in election candidatures. Does hunger, to satisfy which money, income, wages — the power to purchase food — are needed, make news? Does the crisis in our agriculture make news? When Amartya Sen speaks of hunger and malnutrition, when MS Swaminathan does so...
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‘Need for linking farmers directly to market’
A shift from the traditional rice-wheat cycle and linking farmers directly to the market can end the current stagnation in farm sector, according to the Economic Survey 2010-11 tabled in the Parliament on Friday.The survey stated that capital investment were required not only for farm productivity but also to create adequate infrastructure for transport, storage and distribution of agricultural produce. The stagnation is evident from the fact that whereas overall GDP...
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Congress MLAs on the first day of the state assembly's Budget session disrupted governor Dr Kamla's speech on Thursday. They were protesting against the alleged failure of the state government to take action in an RTI activist's suicide case in Kutch. As the governor stood up to deliver her speech, Congress MLAs started shouting slogans against the government. The MLAs demanded justice for RTI activist Jabbardan Gadhvi, 42, who had self-immolated...
More »Increase outlay for higher and technical education by Dhiraj Mathur
The government passed the historic Right to Education Act (RTE Act) making education a fundamental right of every child.The Act makes it obligatory for the government to ensure that every child in the six to 14 years age group gets free elementary education.According to government estimates, there are nearly 220 million children in the relevant age group, of which 4.6%, or nearly 9.2 million, are out of school.Under the Act,...
More »Ready for guillotining? by Richard Mahapatra
How transparent and participatory is Pranab Babu’s Budget For six months it evolves under a veil of secrecy. The Cabinet gets to see it just a few hours before it is tabled in the Lok Sabha. Such is the covert nature of the Union Budget that accounts for about 50 per cent of all Budgets in the country. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee wants to make the Budget what such a public affair...
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