-The Hindu Business Line A sustainable collectivisation of agri produce and marketing, through Farmer Producer Organisations, will help the highly fragmented agriculture sector realise its full revenue potential. It is widely known that India’s agriculture sector has a challenge of lack of scale. Around 80 per cent of our farmers are small and marginal, with less than two hectares of land. Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) have been posed for years as the...
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A Bullet Train to hunger -Dipa Sinha and Rajendran Narayanan
-The Hindu The pandemic has highlighted the importance of expanding social security nets Pinki is a 28-year-old Dalit woman from Saharanpur, U.P. Her husband met with an accident during the national lockdown in April 2020. The two of them had to sell all their belongings for his treatment and subsequently became dependent on her parents. Such avoidable miseries were heaped on millions due to the unilateral national lockdown in 2020. The monthly...
More »Bihar: Migrants not behind latest surge, hints data
-The Indian Express The state government’s daily health bulletin then showed how migrants accounted for more than half of the positive cases. in the ongoing surge in cases in Bihar, the numbers tell a different story. Patna: When migrants started returning to Bihar on Shramik special trains, private vehicles and even on foot, the state government had raised an alarm about the potential spread of infection and started quarantining them. The state government’s...
More »Bullet Train impact on Gujarat farmers: Japanese funders asked to provide report
-Counterview.net In a letter, Gujarat's environmental group Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti's (PSS) Rohit Prajapati, Krishnakant and Swati Desai have asked Katsuo Matsumoto, chief representative, Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to share the copy of the report it has prepared on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, submitted to the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), Government of India, after a JICA team's visit to Gujarat and Maharashtra. Top funders of the high profile...
More »India's first Bullet Train is taking 3 acres from a flamingo sanctuary -Sanjana Bhalerao
-The Indian Express As the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet-train project gets clearance to run through the Thane creek, environmentalists and birders aren’t too happy. The Flamingo yoga pose (the forward stretch of the torso while balancing on one leg) might have given you sore muscles, but tear away from the pain and you can enjoy watching the yoga pose’s inspiration flocking on Mumbai’s wetlands and creeks in their signature pose, feeding and mating....
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