-PTI/ The Indian Express The team led by USAC Director MPS Bisht and consisting of four scientists each from the Geological Survey of India and Uttarakhand Space Application Centre will try to reach the lake on foot by SaTurday evening or Sunday. Raini: A team of researchers arrived in Pang village on SaTurday to inspect the artificial lake formed over Rishiganga after the recent avalanche and gauge how big a threat it...
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From Modi To Sitharaman, The Total About-Turn On MNREGA -Praveen Chakravarty
-NDTV.com In February 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a speech in Parliament, ridiculed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) program as a symbol of the policy failures of the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government headed by Dr. Manmohan Singh and, in his typical coarse style, taunted that he would bleed the program to a slow death. Exactly six years later, on February 12, 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala...
More »Farm laws and ‘taxation’ of farmers -R Ramakumar
-The Hindu To show Indian agriculTure as being net taxed to argue for the farm laws has poor conceptual validity Over the past three decades, a major rationale offered in favour of liberalising Indian agriculTure was that farmers were “net taxed”. In other words, incomes of farmers were kept artificially lower than what they should have been. It was argued that this “net taxation” existed because protectionist policies deprived farmers of higher...
More »Fish Industry in West Bengal in Troubled Waters -Shoma A Chatterji
-TheCitizen.in Fish lovers in West Bengal may soon be threatened with a scarcity in the supply of fish or rise in price or both. The fishermen and the trawler owners are very angry. Without giving a thought to the consequences of a continuous arbitrary rise in the price of diesel, petrol, kerosene and cooking gas by the central government has led to severe disbalance in the finance and employment sector in the...
More »Why Saini farmers in Uttar Pradesh aren’t supporting farmer protests -Ayush Tiwari
-Newslaundry.com Loyalty to the BJP and popularity of Republic Bharat has made the Sainis Turn their backs on the movement led by Jats who claim to have support across caste groups. On February 1, Balbir Singh, 65, travelled to the ITI ground in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor to participate in a mahapanchayat against the new farm laws passed by the Narendra Modi government. According to news reports, the gathering had more than 15,000...
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