Differences between United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (nac) and the government over the coverage of the proposed Food Security Act refuses to die. nac recently came out with its own draft on the Food Security Bill sticking to its position after the food ministry’s draft diluted the Council’s recommendations on coverage of families in rural areas. The nac draft has maintained the coverage of 90 per...
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-The Indian Express It may be too early to take stock of the repercussions and political costs of the midnight round-up of yoga guru Ramdev and his followers from the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi — though the Congress must surely be conscious of the momentum its missteps have acquired. The chaos engendered is obvious. The first thing that the Central government must now do is call a session of Parliament....
More »Land and the sovereign's responsibility by Vinayak Chatterjee
Exasperated with the public perception of its role, the Indian government appears keen to somehow abdicate its key sovereign function of making land available for economic development by dumping it on the private sector. This is wrong. The maintenance of up-to-date land records, the scientific identification of tracts for a shift from agricultural to non-agricultural uses and the smooth transfer of land assets are the functions of the sovereign. The...
More »RDM proposes more equitable deal for landowners; realtors may have to share 80% profits by Devika Banerji & Ravi Teja Sharma
The rural development ministry has proposed that farmers should get 80% of the profits from resale of land bought from them for development, much higher than that suggested by a Sonia Gandhi-led panel. The National Advisory Council had pegged the compensation after resale at 25% of the profits made by private developers. The proposal, aimed at giving farmland owners a better deal, follows protests in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida last month over...
More »Economists write to Sonia on Food Bill by Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Eminent economists have shot off a letter to National Advisory Council (nac) Chairman Sonia Gandhi to ensure that the proposed Food Security Bill is quite comprehensive and excludes only a few rich people. They also want Sonia to get the Bill legislated in such a way it is not based on the current public distribution system (PDS) for all times to come as direct subsidy transfer could also be an...
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