RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
Ministry Of Agriculture
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House panel to study farmer suicides proposed
The government on Monday proposed the setting up of a parliamentary panel to go into the issue of farmer suicides in the wake of contradictory figures emerging from the States and the Union Home Ministry's
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Reforms on the Menu
The right to food law is politically smart; it should be used to spur farm reform On Sunday, long after media had written reams about policy paralysis, India’s Cabinet cleared a law that will supply cheap
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Bill provides for cost sharing with States
The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. However, the recommendation
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Food Security Bill gets Cabinet nod
The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers. Food minister K V Thomas said a meeting of the cabinet that cleared the Bill also decided to introduce it in the current session of Parliament.
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Maharashtra plans to use MGNREGS labour for agriculture: Ajit Pawar
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar revealed on Sunday that the State was in talks about utilising the labour under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee
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Cabinet to take up food Bill on Monday: Thomas
New Delhi The Cabinet will discuss the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Monday, in a bid to introduce the proposed legislation in the current session of Parliament. Food minister K V Thomas on Friday said discussions on the food Bill in the Cabinet which was deferred earlier this week would continue on Monday. “Discussions will continue when the Cabinet meets on Monday,” he told reporters.
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Cabinet All Set to Clear Food Guarantee Bill on Monday
Bill will be referred to standing committee after its introduction in Parliament. Sonia Gandhi’s pet programme — the food guarantee scheme — will be cleared by the Cabinet on Monday. The decision has been
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Farmers crisis? Only 50 MPs stay to discuss it
New Delhi: Farmer suicides and the agrarian crisis have been the reason for many disruptions in Parliament, but when the time comes to discuss the issue, hardly anyone bothers to attend, as happened in
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Cabinet may take up food Bill on Sunday: Thomas
New Delhi After the Cabinet deferred a decision on the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Tuesday due to lack of consensus on the issue, food minister KV Thomas on Wednesday said the Cabinet may discuss
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Fin liability forces Cabinet to defer Food Security Bill
New Delhi The ambitious Food Security Bill of the UPA government was on Tuesday deferred by the Cabinet, apparently spooked by the huge financial commitment it entailed. With every economic indicator plummeting