The noose of blank cheques around farmers neck

Gurpreet Singh is a small farmer from Kishangarh village in Moga district of Punjab. He owns 3.5 acres of land and had defaulted in repaying an instalment on a Rs 5.6-lakh crop loan that he had taken from State Bank of India (SBI). A year ago, he was...

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When Your Child Tells You School Staff Are Treating Them Wrong- Should You Believe Them?

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995Has your son or daughter told you they are being punished by school staff while other kids doing the same things are not?  Do they complain often about being treated bad in class...

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"I have always said that agriculture is being sacrificed to keep market reforms alive." My interview

Distinguished food and trade policy analyst, award winning journalist, writer and researcher DEVINDER SHARMA was trained as an agricultural scientists and quit journalism to write on food and trade policies. He tells SARBJIT DHALIWAL how unfairly independent...

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Agriculture can alleviate employment woes.

Pic courtesy: IVHQLook at these headlines. As many as 7,000 people, most of them college graduates, applied for 13 job vacancies for waiters in Maharashtra’s secretariat. Of the 4,607 applicants for 14 job vacancies of sweepers and sanitary workers in...

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Income Support Announcement represents a tectonic shift, but inadequate -- My Interview

Chandigarh: Last week, while presenting the Narendra Modi government’s last budget, acting finance minister Piyush Goyal announced a direct income support scheme for small and marginal farmers across the country. Under the Pradhan Mantri...

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Direct Income Support for farmers is a welcome move.

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in his Budget speech announced a direct income support of Rs 6,000 per year for small farmers owning less than 2 hectares of land, which is certainly meagre by any standards, but is a tectonic shift in economic thinking...

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