-Newsclick.in The government must analyse its existing data collection exercises, rationalise them and improve the inefficient statistical administration. It is good news that the Labour Bureau will revive its establishments-based Quarterly Employment Surveys or QES, using a larger sample. Since the Periodic Labour Force Surveys or PLFS collects data from households, the proposed quarterly survey of jobs will collect data from establishments. But it is advisable to review the multiple existing employment...
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Farm Laws: Key Talking Points of the Centre's Proposed Dilutions
-TheWire.in The Centre has promised to give a written assurance to farmers on the MSP regime, however farmer union leaders have questioned the current status of this system where some farmers get paid even below the MSP. New Delhi: After several weeks of protests against the hastily passed agriculture Laws, the Centre on Wednesday came up with a set of draft proposals, diluting some provisions of the Laws. However, some farmer union...
More »Farm Laws worsen a development model that covets land, ignores cultivator -Vasundhara Jairath
-The Indian Express For a healthy agrarian sector, the state must strengthen and protect the position of the cultivator. As long as land acquisition continues at its current pace, there is little chance of that happening. As farmers from Punjab and Haryana force the central government into unconditional talks, demanding nothing less than a repeal of the three new farm Laws, the BJP-led NDA government insists the reforms are “farmer-friendly”. The farm...
More »Will the Right to Information Act Become the Right to Denial of Information Act? -Shailesh Gandhi
-Newsclick.in One of the best transparency Laws promulgated by Parliament is now threatened by judicial decisions and interpretations which are not in consonance with the law and would weaken it. If more importance is given to exemptions and widening the Act’s scope, it would be a sad regression for democracy, writes former Central Information Commissioner SHAILESH GANDHI. The Supreme Court of India has consistently held from 1975 to 2005 that the Right...
More »‘Neither a politician, nor a terrorist’: Agricultural scientist writes to PM after refusing award -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express Dr. Varinderpal Singh, Principal Soil Chemist at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, went up on the dais at an event organised by the Fertilizers Association of India in the Capital on Monday, but refused to receive the award from the Union minister for chemicals and fertilizers. Ludhiana: In more symbolic support to the farmers’ protest on the fringes of Delhi, a senior agricultural scientist refused to accept an award...
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