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 …
New Delhi: NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has rolled the dice for another confrontation with Jairam Ramesh, laying claim to a key arm of the rural development ministry which is piloting the land acquisition amendment bill. Pawar has urged the PM to put the department of land resources (DoLR) in his …
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has rejected Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s suggestion on modifying MGNREGA’s guidelines, saying it has not impacted the availability of workers for the farm sector. Ramesh has told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that on the contrary it has led to major increase in farm wages and …
‘Extra expense won’t exceed Rs 100,000 crore, will be spread over 5 years’. Critics have slammed a bloated subsidy that has been proposed for the food security bill, but officials in the government strongly believe that the resultant additional burden will not be above Rs 27,000 crore to meet the …
New Delhi India lost as much as 8,00,000 hectare of arable land to non-farm usage, including the construction of buildings, roads and railways, in the five years through 2008-09, the government said on Tuesday, as an expanding economy has put pressure on the key natural resource to keep its growth …
New Delhi The Centre has released R45,125 crore towards food subsidy until December 15, in line with its budgeted subsidy of R60,572 crore for the current fiscal through March 2012. India’s food subsidy bill rose to R62,929,56 crore in 2010-11 from R58,242.45 crore the year before, food and public distribution …
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 National Crime Records Bureau. The suggestion came after the government was cornered in the Rajya …
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 foodgrains to millions of the poor. This is probably the most politically savvy step …
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 made for near-universalisation by the National Advisory Council chaired by Ms. Gandhi, was set aside by the government. To …
Draft passed unanimously; disagreements may be sorted out by a standing committee. 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 …
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 Scheme (MGNREGS) for agriculture, to bridge the shortage of supply of farm labour. “The State government is discussing whether …
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 …
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 taken after discussions with agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, who has been seeking detailed deliberation on the …
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 the Rajya Sabha on Thursday when not even 60 MPs were present. In fact, there were …
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 the proposed legislation on Sunday. “A special Cabinet meeting is scheduled for Sunday, where …
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 and the GDP growth rate for 2012-13 expected to be only about 6%, it was decided to hold …
Once bitten, twice shy. Fearing repeat of a recent fiasco triggered by its move to permit FDI in retail, the union cabinet on Tuesday deferred a decision on what can be called the present government’s most ambitious social welfare scheme: the Food Security Bill. For, differences continue to persist within …
New Delhi The finance ministry, which has been strongly pushing for decontrolling the price of urea, a commonly used fertiliser, has finally decided against it. It has now endorsed the fertiliser department's apprehension that the price to the farmer will shoot up sharply once producers are given pricing freedom. The …
Set To Push New Law In Current Session To Counter Sense Of Policy Paralysis New Delhi: With a spike of Rs 27,663 crore in the food subsidy bill and the challenge of increasing grain procurement significantly, the Centre is set to move on its big-ticket ‘aam aadmi’ promise of food …
More than 800 villages in the districts of Satara and Sangli were officially declared scarcity-hit by the state government following severe shortage of water and fodder. New divisional commissioner, Prabhakar Deshmukh, made the announcement to the media in the city on Wednesday. According to Deshmukh, the failure of winter monsoon …
In the first high-level red-flag against the UPA government’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that while assets created under the NREGA “may or may not have productive use”, the programme was “adversely” impacting the agriculture sector …
