-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...

-Newsclick.in As the numbers show, the Government isn’t putting its money where its mouth is Everyone, including the Government, recognises the special health and nutrition needs of adolescent girls. The only trouble is, the Union Government forgets this at the time of actually providing funds for nutrition. Why else would the Government cut the funds for the specific schemes for nutrition to only a half of the original allocation? In the budget for...

-Livemint.com With no significant spending increase to boost consumption or other major reform, the 2020 budget may lack the firepower to reignite the economy A growth slump, a precarious fiscal position and rising inflation: these are extraordinary times for the Indian economy. Yet in the 2020 Budget, these extraordinary times did not lead to the extraordinary measures so many economists were clamouring for. Like previous budgets under this Government, the latest one...

-The Hindu To be funded by multiple institutions, the initiative, SUTRA PIC, is led by Department of Science and Technology. The Government has unveiled a programme to research on ‘indigenous’ cows. To be funded by multiple scientific ministries, the initiative, SUTRA PIC, is led by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). It has the Department of Biotechnology, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Ministry for AYUSH (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha,...

-Down to Earth Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis These are desperate times for India. Rural unemployment was at a 45-year-high while consumption expenditure of rural families fell 9 per cent between 2011-12 and 2017-18, according to a report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), which the Government never released but got leaked to the media in November 2019. Between 2011-12 and 2015-16, the income of farmers...