-The Indian Express One in every four farmer respondents across all regions of the country said low PRIces of crops was their most pressing problem. The current crisis in India’s farm sector is perhaps the worst in the last 15-odd years. The Lokniti-CSDS survey (Part 1 was published on Wednesday) has a separate section on farmers’ issues, intended to throw light on their concerns and problems. One in every four farmer respondents across...
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Another woman dies of undernutrition and exhaustion in Jharkhand after denial of PDS rations for four months due to failure of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
-Right to Food Campaign On 23 January 2018, 30-year-old Lukhi Murmu of Dhawadangal village of Hiranpur block in Pakur (Jharkhand) succumbed to prolonged undernutrition and exhaustion. She lived with her 14-year old sister Phulin in extreme poverty. Their meals usually comPRIsed solely of rice and they even had to sleep hungry at times. The sisters’ dePRIvation worsened over the last four months when they were unable to access their ration from...
More »The last budget of Modi government -Himanshu
-Livemint.com The budget to be presented on 1 February may be the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government unless it uses the opportunity to revive the economy The budget to be presented on 1 February will be the last full budget of this government. The budget in 2019 will only be a vote-on-account. But whether this will be the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government will depend on...
More »Safe drinking water a pipedream for Bhuyan tribals
-OrissaPost.com Raisuan (Odisha): Despite funds being spent from the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) on development of mineral-bearing areas, people in several villages of tribal-dominated Keonjhar district are still dePRIved of safe drinking water. Tribals allege lakhs of rupees are being misapproPRIated by officials in the name of development. The sorry state of the inhabitants of Sankari village under Bansapal block is a case in point. People belonging to the Bhuyan tribe live...
More »Economic Survey: Note ban added only a few new taxpayers and will barely increase revenues -Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
-Scroll.in Subramanian’s document says 1.8 million taxpayers have been added to the net, but most are just at the Rs2.5 lakh threshold. The Reserve Bank of India’s report in 2017 confirming that PRIme Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetisation decision resulted in almost all of the withdrawn notes being returned prompted the government to look for other indicators as proof that the effort had not been a waste. One of those was supposed to...
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