-News18.com CCEA in its meeting on Wednesday approved an increase in MSP for summer crops, especially paddy and dal, as a move to fulfil its Budget promise and address farmers' concerns about the cost of crops. New Delhi: The Cabinet’s decision to increase minimum support PRIce (MSP) for Kharif crops, intended to appease farmers, does not seem to have struck the right chord. CCEA in its meeting on Wednesday approved an increase...
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Towards a people's police -Prakash Singh
-The Indian Express The police force needs to be freed from the stranglehold of the executive and given functional autonomy to enforce the rule of law. The Supreme Court’s directions can help achieve this transformation. The battle for police reforms has been going on for the last 22 years. The Supreme Court took 10 years to give a historic judgment in 2006. Since then it has been a struggle to get the...
More »The paradox of job growth -R Nagaraj
-The Hindu Besides the missing informal sector, over-estimation of output growth also offers clues Are the latest employment estimates by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) factually correct? No. They are off the mark, and confined to the economy’s organised or formal sector, accounting at best for 15% of the workforce. Is there a paradox in high output growth rates and the marginal effect on employment? Probably not, if one acknowledges that GDP...
More »Minimum support PRIce for paddy hiked by Rs. 200 a quintal -Vikas Vasudeva & PRIscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu The Union government looks to fulfil its poll promise of giving farmers 50 per cent more rate than their cost of production. In keeping with the promise made in this year’s Budget speech, the Union Cabinet has approved a hike in minimum support PRIces (MSPs) for kharif crops so that they are 50% higher than the cost of production, not including land costs. This includes a ?200 per quintal increase in...
More »MSP of 14 kharif crops hiked, millet growers to benefit -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre hiked on Wednesday the minimum support PRIce (MSP) of 14 kharif (summer sown) crops for the 2018-19 marketing season, syncing it with BJP’s 2014 poll promise to provide farmers a profit margin of at least 50% over their cost of production for all the notified crops across the country. Seven of these 14 crops have reported hikes of nearly 20% or more as compared...
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