India has issued a global urea tender asking producers to quote a discount for the supply of 600,000 tonnes of urea & seeks to cut import costs & secure cheaper supplies of the soil nutrient.
A team has been set up to monitor the levels of primary pollutants, measures taken to curb pollution & status of complaints received through Green Delhi mobile app, said Rai.
None of the new agri-marketing laws have anything to do with the coronavirus or the lockdown, but were brought in by Modi govt when Parliament was shut.
The last 3 years have seen the worsening of agrarian crisis. Agricultural GDP has grown at less than 2 per cent, the lowest under any regime since 1991.
The answer to why one region can deal with a terrible drought and another can't lies basically in its politics — because in a democracy votes decide where the state invests.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
COMMENTS