-The Times of India BHOPAL: There has been an almost 2000% rise in the cases of suicide due to unemployment in Madhya Pradesh between 2005 and 2015. In 2005, the number of people committing suicide with unemployment as a reason was 29 which went up to 579 in 2015, said Akshay Hunka convener of Berozgar Sena quoting the figures of the National Crime Record Bureau(NCRB). The Sena was constituted recently to highlight...
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GDP numbers have brought cheer, but Indian economy needs a more even path to growth -Radhika Pandey, Amey Sapre and Pramod Sinha
-ThePrint.in Growing CAD, weak bank deposit growth, and fiscal deficit surpassing estimates cause for worry. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) recently released the Second Advance Estimates (2nd AE) for 2017-18, and the 3rd quarter GDP growth figures for October-December 2017. The new numbers have added some cheer to the disappointing state of affairs in the economy. The aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) registered a healthy growth of 7.2 per cent, while the gross...
More »Ravi Chopra, Environmentalist and water management expert, interviewed by Arif Hussain (TheWire.in)
-TheWire.in Environmentalist and water management expert Ravi Chopra says river inter-linking will sow the seeds for future conflicts between states. There is nothing new about the proposed river-interlinking project being pushed by the government, and this ‘unnecessary excess’ of a project will create more problems than it promises to solve, says environmentalist and water management expert, Dr Ravi Chopra, the director of People’s Science Institute, Dehradun and a managing trustee of the...
More »Doubling Farmers' Incomes: Mechanisms and Challenges -Sukhpal Singh
-Economic and Political Weekly The government’s initiative to increase farmers’ incomes is welcome as it is central to dealing with the agrarian crisis in India. Various mechanisms for increasing farmers’ incomes from the perspective of small farmers and farm workers are critically examined. The article proposes a focus on high-value crops and rain-fed areas, non-farm occupations, agro-industrialisation, and strengthening and innovating producer and worker institutions in India. It also presents insights...
More »Tomato prices in MP fall from Rs 30/kg in Oct to Rs 2/kg
-PTI Due to a bumper crop, wholesale prices of tomato in Madhya Pradesh have plummeted to as low as Rs 2 per kg, from Rs 30 in October, farmers said. Yogesh Septa, a farmer from Raipuria village in Petlawad area of Jhabua district, a major tomato-producing region, said, "We are getting on average Rs 2 per kilogram of tomatoes in wholesale markets. We won't recover even the production and harvesting cost at...
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