-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: Fear of another attack of whitefly pest, which ravaged huge tracts of cotton last year in Punjab, has led to biggest drop in area under cotton cultivation in Punjab in more than six decades. Data from Union agriculture ministry's department of economics and statistics (DES) shows that area under cotton crop this season has shrunk to 2.56 lakh hectares in the state, the lowest since 1955-56....
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From Plate to Plough: Twenty-five years of tinkering -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express Agriculture needs a champion in the Union CABinet. July, this year, marks the silver jubilee of economic reforms. It is time to take stock of our major successes and failures. There is a saying that bad times are often good for policies and good times are bad for policies. It is well-known that the foreign exchange crisis, with reserves falling to as low as $1.5 billion, triggered fundamental changes...
More »Government employees earn (much) more than private sector ones – but only at the entry-level -Mayank Jain
-Scroll.in However, 32 lakh employees are still not happy. People working for the Indian government have a reason to celebrate. The Narendra Modi government has just doled out a Rs 1.02 lakh crore pay hike for some 10 million current and ex-employees, whose salaries are likely to get a jump of 23.55% on average. On Wednesday, the CABinet approved the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission and the wage hike should follow...
More »Maharashtra farmers can now directly tap wholesalers -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: The Maharashtra CABinet has given in-principle approval to farmers to sell fruits and vegetables directly to wholesalers, bypassing the APMC mandis. However, it has held back the decision by a few days, handing it over to a CABinet sub-committee. "A CABinet sub-committee will take a decision on the matter in four days. We want to examine different angles such as the risk involved in farmers getting payment when...
More »Panchayati Raj Ministry: A downgrade for democracy -Mani Shankar Aiyar
-The Hindu Confining it to just the Ministry of Rural Development would be the most retrograde step in democratic decentralisation in over a quarter century. If, as The Hindu’s exclusive on Wednesday indicates, Prime Minister Narendra Modi were to close down the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, it would confirm one’s worst fears about his government’s hypocritical approach to grass-roots democracy for grass-roots development. This was a lacuna that was evident in the ‘Gujarat...
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