-The Indian Express Despite having some ability to benefit a section of the economically worse off, the researchers say, it is mostly a “political stunt” and limited in its ability to tackle INCome inequality. New Delhi: The Congress’ proposal of Nyay, a monthly payout of Rs 6,000 to the poorest 20 per cent, can be best served with “more progressive taxation,” which could INClude a wealth tax on the rich, says...
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Most vulnerable farmers are left out as states across India start money transfers to farmland owners -Mridula Chari
-Scroll.in Landless farmers are left out of Telangana’s Rythu Bandhu, but nominally INCluded in Odisha’s Kalia. For two decades, Chinthanna Linganna, 55, has cultivated agricultural land leased from others in Talamadugu village in Telangana’s Adilabad district. He currently rents 20 acres of land to grow cotton. SINCe May, the people who own this land have received cheques of up to Rs 1.6 lakh from the state government as agricultural investment support. Linganna...
More »Direct tax collection falls short, CBDT raises alarm
-PTI The CBDT has been worried over the direct tax collection work for quite some time The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has rung alarm bells and has asked the INCome Tax Department to go for a major assault as the direct tax collection target remains short of about 15%, with the financial year closing less than a week away. On March 26, CBDT Member (Revenue) Neena Kumar shot off a letter...
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-The Hindu Business Line Kochi (Kerala): The two-day conference on ‘Models for Agricultural Development: Experiences of Farmer Producer Companies’, has called for sustained efforts to strengthen, streamline, support and coordinate Farmer Producer Organisations. The conference, jointly organised by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Kerala Agriculture University and Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), mooted a national level consortium to help the FPCs realise their goals and lead the efforts to enhance farmers’...
More »Is farmer INCome support a sustainable solution? -Sanjiv Phansalkar
-VillageSquare.in INCome support to smallholder farmers is similar to palliative measures like minimum support prices or loan waivers that do not address the problem of an unsustainable population living on a fixed resource base The government in the budget for this year has announced an allocation of Rs 75,000 crore for direct INCome transfer of Rs 6,000 annually for every farmer who owns less than 2 hectares of land. This amount...
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