-Business Standard Green revolution pioneer now marked by rising rural despair, with high costs and low incomes pushing a mass of small cultivators into a debt trap Chandigarh: Fifty eight and counting…the number of farmers' suicides in Punjab in the past three months due to agrarian distress is alarming. Maharashtra, Punjab and Telangana top this grim list, the Union government informed Parliament last week. Rainfed states are in a crisis due to two...

-Livemint.com IMF points to problem with redistribution of incomes as high growth RATes are not reducing inequality New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that both India and China face the social risk of growing inequality. By implication, it is suggesting that there is a problem with the redistribution of incomes in both these economies as high economic growth RATes are not reducing inequality. In its regional economic outlook for Asia...

-Business Standard IWMI supported them financially for purchase, installation of pumps and solar panels by funding Rs 40 lakh so far Ahmedabad: With the help of Colombo-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI), six GujaRAT farmers have formed world’s first solar power coopeRATive society to sell surplus power geneRATed from solar water pumps installed at their farms. After conducting a successful pilot project of connecting farmer with the grid at Anand district of GujaRAT,...

It seems that not only civil society activists, but even the poor and marginalized themselves are not happy with the Centre’s social welfare policies. Following the recent protest by 150 eminent persons regarding failure of the NDA Government to take-up urgent measures for employment geneRATion and ensuring food, nutrition & drinking water security in the backdrop of severe drought in roughly 1/3rd of Indian districts (please click here to access),...

-PTI State govts fear that the new RATes would not be able to attract labourers because they are still below the existing minimum wages fixed by the states. The revised MGNREGA wages for the current fiscal announced recently have left various state governments in a quandary as they apprehend the new RATes would not be able to attract labourers because they are still below the existing minimum wages fixed by the...