SEARCH RESULT

Total Matching Records found : 1248

Govt raises budget for rural jobs scheme by Rs. 5,000 crore -Elizabeth Roche

-Livemint.com Fresh fund infusion means the overall budget allocation for MGNREGS in 2016-17 will be Rs43,500 crore New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government has increased the budget for the national rural employment guarantee scheme by Rs.5,000 crore to Rs.43,500 crore for 2016-17, minister of state for rural development Ram Kripal Yadav told Parliament on Monday. The scheme “will not be shut down but strengthened. It is a special direction...

More »

Punjab’s sorrow -Sukhpal Singh

-Frontline A noteworthy study that provides much-needed insights into the nature and severity of the farm crisis in Punjab. There have been many studies on agrarian distress and farmer suicides in different parts of India in the last decade, including in Punjab. Most of the studies focus on a profile of the victims, mostly landowning farmers, and reasons thereof, with a sample of such farmers. In this context, this book makes a...

More »

Reaping distress -Jayati Ghosh

-Frontline The inability to resolve pressing problems with respect to the production, distribution and availability of food is one of the important failures of the entire economic reform process. IN the fateful month of July 1991, when the devaluation of the Indian rupee presaged the introduction of a whole series of liberalising economic reforms, agriculture was very far from the minds of most policymakers and commentators. The immediate focus was on...

More »

Only 41% crop credit disbursed in Maharashtra till June -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

-Livemint.com Govt’s plan to cover 80% farmers falling apart as banks have disbursed loans to only 3.1 million farmers in the kharif season Mumbai: Maharashtra government’s plan to cover 80% of the state’s 13.7 million farmers under institutionalised crop credit in 2016-17 seems to be falling apart. By 30 June, a large network of public, private and district co-operative banks had disbursed crop loans to only 3.1 million farmers in the...

More »

Government unveils norms for farm loan waiver scheme

-The Hindu Cooperative societies will get the amount in a phased manner Chennai: Pursuant to the announcement made by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on the waiver of agricultural loans availed by small and micro farmers from cooperative banks, the State government has issued specific guidelines to be followed while implementing the waiver. According to the Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS), the scheme would be applicable to entire outstanding principal, interest, penal interest and all...

More »

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close