In each of the last three years – from 2020 through 2022 – Indian banks lent more money to retail customers purchasing homes than they did to farmers. In fiscal year (FY)2021-22 commercial banks gaveRs. 17.54 lakh crore worth of housing loans, while agriculture and allied activities got Rs. 15.16 lakh crore. That is nearly 14 percent less. In FY 2021 and FY 2020 – one of which saw a...
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One In Every Three Farmers in Telangana is a Tenant, Finds New Survey -G Ram Mohan
-TheWire.in The survey also provided an insight into the socio-economic conditions of the tenant farmers, finding that a majority of them are OBCs and Dalits. Hyderabad: A field study by the Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) has made several revelations about the conditions of farmers in Telangana, including that one in every three farmers is a tenant farmer. The findings of the first-of-its-kind survey done in Telangana after its formation in 2014, run contrary...
More »Maharashtra ministers contradict each other over malnutrition deaths -Faisal Malik
-Hindustan Times Opposition legislators staged a walkout on the last day of the monsoon session to protest what they called Gavit’s “insensitivity” over the issue. Mumbai: Conflicting information over malnutrition deaths in the state emerged from the assembly on Thursday as ministers of the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government contradicted each other. Tribal development minister Vijay Kumar Gavit said that the state had not witnessed any malnutrition deaths in the past five years,...
More »Centre faces cover-up charge over iron rice given to poor, kids -Animesh Bisoee and GS Mudur
-The Telegraph 'Shocking that govt is trying to evade responsibility by issuing circulars that call on state governments to comply with FSSAI regulations' Jamshedpur, New Delhi: Two citizens’ alliances on Monday accused the Centre of trying to “cover up” what they have described as its “irresponsible” and “unscientific” decision to release iron-fortified rice through government food schemes and exposing vulnerable people to the potential health risks of iron overdose. The Right to Food...
More »Fortified rice is not suitable for everyone's consumption, state activist of ASHA and Right to Food Campaign
-Press release by Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) and the Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) dated 22 August, 2022 New Delhi, August 22, 2022: An RTI response by the Ministry of Women and Child Development reveals knee-jerk and self-protecting measures in the form of a few circulars issued by the Ministry of Food and Public Distribution as well as the Ministry of Women and Child Development with regard to Fortified...
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