-The Hindu Worldwide, one child/young adolescent died every 5 seconds in 2018, says UN inter-agency group India is among the few countries in the world where, in 2018, the mortality under-5 years of girls, exceeded that of boys, according to the ‘Levels and Trends in Child Mortality’ report by the United Nations (UN) inter-agency group for child mortality. The global report states that in 2018 fewer countries showed gender disparities in child mortality,...
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Won't back fiscal tightening currently: Abhijit Banerjee -Ajeet Mahale
-The Hindu Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee says the deficit numbers are a bit imaginary, not a big deal if breached Mumbai: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has said that he would not back fiscal tightening in the current economic environment. Prof. Banerjee added that the real constraint to the state of education in the country in the current climate of economic slowdown was not lack of money, but the lack of attention paid to...
More »Sustainable SRI and Rice Production: Learnings from an Irrigated Agriculture Management Project in Tamil Nadu -Vibhu Nayar. VK Ravichandran, BC Barah and Norman Uphoff
-Economic and Political Weekly In Tamil Nadu, the extreme variation in rainfall had reduced the availability of water to agriculture and caused the groundwater table to fall by 37%. The production of rice, an important crop, had became particularly precarious. A well-designed upscaling strategy boosted and sustained the production of rice; it also helped the build-up of organic matter and improved soil fertility. This experience shows that the System of Rice...
More »After fertilisers, Centre wants food subsidy to directly benefit farmers -Harikishan Sharma & Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express In Odisha, procurement of paddy during the ongoing 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) is, for the first time, being done from registered farmers only after Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. FIRST IT was fertilisers, where the NDA government made disbursal of subsidy conditional upon actual sales to farmers getting registered on PoS (Point of Sale) machines in retail outlets. That reform measure — to ensure that the benefit of minimum support...
More »Bid to extend 15% tax relief duration -R. Suryamurthy
-The Telegraph Lower corporate tax of 15% valid till March 2023 The government is exploring the possibility of extending the duration of the corporate tax relief to new units beyond March 2023. Sources said the commerce ministry had taken up the issue to extend the benefits to seven years with the finance ministry. The ministry has argued the duration should be higher as the time taken from conceptualising a project to actual production could...
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