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What determines MGNREGA wages? by Sandip Sukhtankar

Officials may pocket the wage increases, but the wage level in MGNREGA seems just enough to induce workers to Turn up. This year marks the sixth anniversary of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India's landmark right-to-work programme. The Act guarantees 100 days of paid employment to every rural household in India (up to 850 million people), regardless of eligibility criteria, and establishes the government's...

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Offset ban on cotton export by raising floor price by 10%: CACP-Nidhi Nath Srinivas

The government should immediately announce a 10% increase in the floor price of cotton and rice to protect farmer incomes if it imposes a ban on the export of these commodities, India's two most economically significant cash crops, according to the Commission of AgriculTural Costs and Prices (CACP), a body which advises the government on the pricing policy for major farm produce. "Any ban on export is an implicit tax on...

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Gujarat massacre: 23 killed, 23 guilty, 23 acquitted

-The Times of India   More than a decade after 23 people, mostly women and children, were killed when a mob set ablaze a shelter for Muslims huddled together for safety in Ode during the post-Godhra riots, a Gujarat court on Monday found 23 of the suspects guilty of murder and conspiracy. The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) has sought the death sentence for those convicted of murder.  The special court in...

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Conspiracy charge upheld for first time, 23 convicted for Ode killings

-Express News Service Just over a decade after two dozen Muslims were massacred in Ode during the 2002 riots in Gujarat, a specially appointed court on Monday convicted 23 people from the Patel community while acquitting 23 for want of evidence. One of the accused died during the trial. Of the 23 convicted, 19 have been found guilty of murder and conspiracy and the rest of attempt to murder along with allied...

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The thin red line

-The Indian Express   CRPF in Abhujmaad shows how ‘liberated zone’ is a self-serving myth for Maoists and govt   In a never-before feat, the CRPF entered the mysterious heart of Maoist territory last month — over 6,000 sq km of jungle splayed across Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Abhujmaad, literally, the unknown hills, has been left to itself after the Maoists moved here in the 1980s and, having found no trace of administration, declared it...

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