-ThePrint.in Stakeholders ask Modi govt to import milk & milk products to create buffer stock. This would make India a net importer for the first time since 2011-12. New Delhi: A shortage of fodder and a resultant decline in milk production and procurement has meant that prices of the essential item could increase by Rs 8-10 in the summer. Citing this dairy shortage, multiple milk federations and the Indian Ice-Cream Manufacturers’ Association (IICMA)...
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Reset and refocus -Amartya Lahiri
-The Indian Express Impression that Government prioritises non-economic agenda over development must be addressed India is now well and truly in the middle of a socio-economic upheaval. The economy has been weakening for a couple of years now. The social upheaval is new but its seeds have been fermenting for a while. The danger here is that the social and economic sides of an economy are not divorced from each other....
More »Explained: Centre-state disputes and Article 131 -Apurva Vishwanath
-The Indian Express What is Article 131, under which Kerala has moved SC against the CAA? How does this challenge differ from the other petitions filed against the law? What aspects of India’s federal structure does the case throw up? On Tuesday, Kerala became the first state to challenge the Citizenship (Amendment) Act(CAA) before the Supreme Court. However, the legal route adopted by the state is different from the 60 petitions already...
More »Explained: A new controversy on India's fiscal deficit -Udit Misra
-The Indian Express In his blog, S C Garg, former Economic Affairs secretary, has claimed that the actual fiscal deficit for the last financial year and the current one is more than a full percentage point higher than the official data. On the face of it, India’s fiscal deficit, which essentially maps how much money the Indian Government has to borrow to make up the gap between its expenditure and its revenues,...
More »On Assam Accord Cut-Off Date For Citizenship, Himanta Biswa Sarma's Spin -Ratnadip Choudhury
-NDTV The cut-off year, he said, was 1966 and by implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act, the BJP Government is not 'violating' the Assam Accord but addressing its "unresolved issues". Guwahati: Assam minister and the BJP's key strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma weighed in on the debate over the citizenship law in the state, contending that 1971 was never the cut-off year for granting citizenship under the Assam accord - a key claim...
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