-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 28 July 2022 Based on the findings NREGA Sangharsh Morcha put forth the following demands: 1. All the documents pertaining to correspondence between the Central Government and the State Government on MGNREGA since 2019, including the reports of central team visits and action taken, should be made public. 2. The Labour Budget for West Bengal for the FY 2022-23 has to be approved immediately by the...
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Food grain traders of Dhanbad protest against tax hike -Praduman Choubey
-The Telegraph Merchants fear the new decision may result in corruption Dhandbad: Food grain traders across the state are up in arms against the new Jharkhand State Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing Act 2022 implemented by government as per which a 2% Bazar fee is to be imposed on all transactions held in 'Agriculture Produce Market Committee' operated markets across the state. The protesting food grain traders have termed the decision of the...
More »Direct Purchase Centres colluding with middlemen to deny farmers government-fixed revenue? -Thinakaran Rajamani
-The New Indian Express Farmers are still waiting to sell their paddy to the DPC even 10 days after submitting their applications online. TENKASI: Paddy farmers from across the district alleged that the Direct Purchase Centres (DPC) here were purchasing paddy from middlemen, instead of purchasing it from them. They added that it has affected their profits and that the middlemen were now getting benefitted from their misery. When TNIE spoke to farmers...
More »Padma Shri for Bhopal’s gritty crusader -Anup Dutta
-The Hindu Posthumous honour for Abdul Jabbar who fought relentlessly for the victims of the Union Carbide gas leak Abdul Jabbar, a gas victim, waged a lonely and seemingly never-ending battle for the welfare of the survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. His relentless struggle for over three decades brought medical and economic rehabilitation to the scores of victims. He will be awarded the Padma Shri posthumously on Monday at the Darbar...
More »Haryana’s deficit payment scheme still a work in progress, I learnt in my mandi visits -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in Farmers, farm leaders, economists and policy makers would do well to study this scheme carefully as it shows a possible path to the future. Anew model? Or another fiasco in the making? I kept asking my colleagues and myself as we travelled across the semi-arid bajra growing belt of south Haryana. We stopped at a few mandis — Rewari, Kanina, Ateli, Narnaul, Dadari and Bhiwani — and spoke to farmers, adhatiyas...
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