Topic: Farmers
The buzz in UP about Modi govt’s farm incentive — Rs 2,000 not enough, just a poll gimmick
Farmers say annual Rs 6,000 under PM-KISAN is too little, too late. They highlight stray cattle menace and believe that Balakot air strikes will help BJP.
38 Delhi-Amritsar trains cancelled as farmers protest on railway tracks
Farmers in Punjab have been protesting on rail tracks to demand loan waivers and payment for sugarcane crop with 15% interest among other issues.
PM Modi’s plan to provide Rs 2,000 to small farmers might not give much relief
Modi’s surprise cash ban and introduction of GST hit the rural economy hard, and by the time he came up with fixes, the rural distress had penetrated deeper and wider.
Haryana’s please-all budget in election year includes sops for farmers & govt employees
The Khattar govt plans to distribute Rs 1,500 crore as special financial & social security to families of farmers who possess less than 5 acres of land.
With eye on polls, PM Modi transfers first instalment of income support scheme to farmers
Funds were transferred to the accounts of more than 10 million farmers.
Want to help farmers, remove middlemen? Scrap the law governing agri markets
Model APMC laws suffer from the same economic problem as the old ones. We should repeal APMC laws and not replace them.
Farmers talks with Maharashtra govt inconclusive, to continue march to Mumbai
Farmers are on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the past year over the BJP govt's 'betrayal' of peasants.
RBI does its bit to compliment Modi govt’s budget sops for farmers
RBI raises cap on collateral-free agricultural loans to Rs 1.6 lakh from Rs 1 lakh — move to benefit all farmers who were left out from budget proposals.
India’s woeful land records will have trouble identifying farmers eligible for Rs 500/month
Direct benefit transfer comes with certain pre-conditions, primary among them is the need for a robust method to identify beneficiaries.
Modi’s new farm scheme faces hurdles of old land records & non-BJP states
The PM-KISAN scheme demands coordination between Centre and the states as agriculture is a state subject.
Communists who once sided with BJP now irked over no alliance with Congress in West Bengal
With a chequered history, where the Left Front had ‘aligned’ with the BJP, it is impossible for the CPM cadre to adjust themselves with the Congress.
Rahul Gandhi’s Rs 72,000 income pledge: Are populist freebies the only way to win elections?
Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday pledged to give Rs 12,000 per month to every family in India if the Congress is voted to power in the 2019 elections.
Defence
India inducts Chinook helicopters, adds muscle to military along China border
Each Chinook helicopter can lift 45 soldiers, artillery guns or even light armoured vehicles to high altitudes. It can also fly through narrow mountain valleys.
Why Rahul Gandhi’s Congress is in danger of morphing into a clueless NGO
Congress has questions but no answers, ‘leaders’ but no winners. Weeks before polls, it’s behaving like a virtuous, anti-establishment NGO just doing its thing.