Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Even as the government is pushing through Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s pet project - the National Food Security Bill - two key members of the Cabinet - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar - today voiced their concern over crucial aspects related to the proposed law that …
New Delhi Officials of the food, agriculture and finance ministries will meet the state and central ministers concerned in a bid to thrash out objections raised by the states over the proposed Food Security Bill. The two-day conference that begins on Wednesday will also take up the creation of additional …
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said it will be difficult to implement the proposed Food Security Act with existing distribution system and suggested massive reforms. “I will be failing in my duty if I do not emphasise the fact that the Food Security Act will never succeed in achieving its …
The Animal Resources Development Department, along with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, on Sunday commenced the culling of poultry birds at the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) in Bhubaneswar following the advisory from the Union Agriculture Ministry to prevent the spread of the avian influenza (H5N1) virus. On the first day, …
New Delhi The agriculture ministry is seeking higher budgetary allocation to ramp up the focus on farm mechanisation and sustainable agricultural schemes in the next financial year, as the country plans to implement an ambitious food security law that would put pressure on the farm sector to scale up productivity …
The sixth anniversary of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) saw the government promising reforms in the scheme, which has been criticised for delays in wage payments and depleting farm labour. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the scheme could usher in a second green revolution through land development and …
New Delhi Close to five crore farmers have availed of the benefits under the national crop insurance scheme, which aims at protecting farming communities against crop failures due to vagaries of weather, pest attacks and diseases. According to the latest data released on Wednesday by ministry of agriculture, crop insurance …
The government’s plan of ushering in a green revolution in eastern states doesn’t seem to have taken off in the country’s biggest paddy (de-husked) rice producing state of West Bengal. Till January 20, only 50 per cent of the total funds allocated for the state were released by the Centre. …
The time has come to supplement the employment guarantee scheme with a food security strategy. And if we don’t do it now, we probably will not do so for a long time. As the economist Gunnar Myrdal argued, a lot of “scientific” economic and social reasoning is thinly disguised value …
The Centre’s National Food Security Bill could face some hitches, irrespective to which party forms government in Punjab as both the Congress and Akali Dal-BJP have promised to diversify agricultural production by moving towards cash or commercial crops. The poll promise by political parties to influence Punjab farmer to also …
After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian? The bill seeks to address widespread hunger in the country through food support programmes and provides eligible beneficiaries the legal right to receive foodgrains at subsidised prices.
The Centre on Monday released Rs 332.87 crore to seven Eastern States to extend the Green Revolution in the current financial year (2011-12). Rs 400 crore have been earmarked for this sub-scheme under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana for this year. The programme targets improvement in the rice-based cropping system in …
Concerned over poor budget allocation for the farm sector, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Sunday that it may be difficult to implement the proposed Food Security Bill without adequate funds to boost agricultural output, a must for increased foodgrain requirement. “My grievance is only one — the total budgeted …
New Delhi, 29 Jan: Concerned over poor budget allocation for the farm sector, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar today said it may be difficult to implement the proposed Food Security Bill without adequate funds to boost agri- output, a must for increased foodgrain requirement. “My grievance is only one ~ the …
A Planning Commission expert committee may soon recommend a revised price for ethanol, currently pegged at an ad hoc price of Rs 27 a litre. Official sources said the commission will forward this to all ministries. It will then be finalised by a group of ministers (GoM). The revised price …
Dhaka: The Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP), funded by Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GA-FSP), will enhance the productivity of agriculture (crops, livestock and fisheries) in some selected project areas of the country. This includes Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilfamari, and Lalmonirhat districts in the flash-flood and drought-prone areas in the …
NEW DELHI: The Fertiliser Ministry today rejected reports that it plans to decontrol the urea sector and effect a steep 40 per cent hike in retail prices of the product vis-a-vis the prevailing rate of Rs 5,310 per tonne. Urea is the only fertiliser product that remains under full price …
The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas. Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects birds. The virus that causes the bird infection can mutate to affect humans. "The declaration …
New Delhi The agriculture sector performed exceedingly well in 2011, with record grain production of over 240 million tonnes giving enough leeway for the government to lift a ban on exports of wheat and non-basmati rice and introduce the food security bill in Parliament. Farmers’ long-standing demand for crop loans …
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Monday made it clear that the state government will not play a role in deciding the price of sugarcane and the sugar factories will have to take a decision on the pricing of sugarcane. Pawar also said that if the factories quote a higher …
