-TheWire.in Given the INCreased policy and intervention focus on producer companies, it becomes imperative to understand exactly how many there are. On July 5, 2019, the Centre announced a plan to promote 10,000 new farmer producer companies over the next five years. India already has many such companies, which have been registered sINCe they were introduced in 2002 through an amendment to the Companies Act. While registered under that Act, they have several...
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Strengthening MGNREGA for reviving the economy -Surajit Das
-Newsclick.in Even if the wage rates under MGNREGA are doubled and if jobs are provided for at least 100 days in a year as per the law, the extra expenditure would not exceed 1% of GDP. The growth rate is slowing down in India neither because of lower productivity of the labourers or that of the land, nor because of shortage of labour or productive capacity, but because of the lack of...
More »We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition -Harsh Mander
-The Indian Express Among all the countries INCluded in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high. The abiding disgrace of new India is that despite unprecedented quantities of wealth and the vulgar ostentation which has become customary in the gaudy glitter of...
More »With Ayushman Bharat push: India may eliminate shortage of doctors 'in less than 7 years' -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express India has far less doctors than the WHO-mandated one doctor for a population of 1,000, and to meet that requirement, the country would need approximately 13.5 lakh doctors. India may eliminate its shortage of doctors in less than seven years, as per estimates drawn up by the Union Health Ministry. As the country rolls out Ayushman Bharat and INCludes 50 crore people in the medical net, it is...
More »Bihar lets down Modi govt, only 26% farmers have enrolled for INCome support scheme -Samyak Pandey
-ThePrint.in Bihar govt has blamed the Centre’s ‘complicated’ verification process for the low enrollment in the state, which has 16.19 million farmers. Patna: PM-KISAN, the Narendra Modi government’s flagship INCome support scheme for farmers, has fared poorly in Bihar in terms of their enrollment. Of the 40,95,000 beneficiaries, just 26 per cent farmers have registered under PM-KISAN, a Bihar agriculture ministry official told ThePrint. The state has 16.19 million farmers — the second...
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