-Outlook A tax holiday is expected to push more farmers to turn entrepreneurial The Budget’s announcement of a five-year tax holiday for Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) with a turnover of up to Rs 100 crore came as a relief to the thousands of farmers who are members of around 4,000 such companies in the country. In December 2017, a sizeable number of farmers gathered at a national conference organised in Pune were...
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Centre, states to discuss how to ensure MSP for farmers
-PTI The Centre will consult state governments early next month to set up a mechanism for protecting farmers' income when market prices fall below the minimum support price (MSP), Agriculture Secretary S K Pattanayak said today. A model law is also being prepared to ensure tenant cultivators get institutional credit and interest subsidy, he added. "We will call a meeting of state governments early next month to discuss a mechanism so that farmers...
More »Why the Budget may not benefit the female kisan -Jayashree Nandi
-The Times of India Laduben, 70, of Kuda village in Gujarat's Bhavnagar has waited for more than 20 years to be recognised as a 'farmer' in government records and become the rightful owner of the land she cultivated for years. Laduben's husband passed away when her three daughters were little and she was carrying her fourth child. Her in-laws got her name removed from the family varsai (inheritance document). Her brother-in-law insisted...
More »Kapil Sibal to SC: Aadhaar shouldn't be the sole identity criterion for claiming benefits -Priyanka Mittal
-Livemint.com Lawyer Kapil Sibal says making Aadhaar mandatory for government schemes would be a constitutional violation in restricting the choice of identity to one New Delhi: Denial of entitlements in case a citizen does not have Aadhaar or refuses to get one leads to abrogation of his fundamental rights, lawyer Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday. The submission was made before a Constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices D.Y. Chandrachud, A.K....
More »Don't believe the BJP and Congress claims that they're cleaning up poll funding -Milan Vaishnav
-ThePrint.in The larger lesson is clear: in an era when the Congress & the BJP can agree on next to nothing, they will gladly join hands to save their own skin. Among all the talk of the aam aadmi focus emerging from last week’s Budget, many people may have missed one of its most self-serving acts. This manoeuvre found no mention in the Union Finance Minister’s presentation itself, but was instead buried...
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