उर्वरक सब्सिडी से किसे मिला फायदा?

बहुत ज्यादा इस्तेमाल किए जाने वाले उर्वरक पर सब्सिडी में ऐतिहासिक वृद्धि ऐसे माहौल का संकेत देती है, जो आने वाले समय में अक्षमता ...

Cash, on delivery: How India has taken up DBT in the times of COVID-19

India has employed its direct benefit transfer system to help people tide over the ongoing health and economic crises. Its real test will begin …

Civil society 'deeply disappointed' with WTO ministerial declaration on agriculture

On Public Food stockholding, the current proposal is far worse than the Peace Clause, which itself suffered from several problems

Why AAP’s subsidies mean increased cost of living for me

Rich house owners, the urban minority, will benefit from AAP's power and water subsidies and they will certainly not pass on this benefit to the …

Alcohol subsidised

Are public private partnerships in irrigation the way forward?

A recent World Bank report suggests that PPPs can improve irrigation and agriculture

Nature's subsidy

Food Systems Summit: ‘Supports to farmers keeping the world away from SDGs and the Paris Agreement’

United Nations calls for repurposing and reforming price-distorting and environmentally harmful supports to farmers

कोविड-19: नगद हस्तांतरण को अपनाने से पहले इन बातों का रखना होगा ध्यान

दुनियाभर के तमाम देश कोविड-19 संकट को लेकर डिजिटल भुगतान अपना रहे हैं। ऐसे में उन्हें हर हाल में यह सुनिश्चित करना चाहिए कि ...

'Ocean cleaning depends on decisions taken by people across the world'

To combat problems such as ocean acidification and sea level rise, we have to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide

On the world’s largest and longest UBI experiment

The experiment is ongoing in 'sequestered' 200 villages in Kenya for the next eight years and India has some lessons as it plans for a similar scheme

Is solar sector truly achieving grid parity?

Given the huge dependence on subsidy, can the trend of reducing solar tariffs be deemed as an achievement of the renewable or solar sector?

Budget 2020-21: Expect direct benefit transfer for urea

Move to aim at controlling excessive urea usage and promoting zero-budget farming

Agriculture sector not responsible for discoms’ health, declining groundwater: study

While power consumption in agriculture is overestimated, a number of factors influence groundwater extraction

For India, the fight at WTO will be about food security

India needs to find a permanent solution to the problem of public stock holding, as it is a matter of survival for hundreds of millions of people

Farmers need support, period

It is time we talked about the real cost of our food, about how to benefit farmers who grow our food

Rich nations should reduce trade-distorting farm subsidies by 2019: India, China tell WTO

The countries say that talks on further discipline on domestic support can only happen after harmful subsidies are reduced

Aadhaar Bill and Hitler's law

By pretending the Aadhaar regulation is a money bill, the Modi government has used Nazi tactics to avoid parliamentary debate

Bihar farmers question government decision to end diesel subsidy for them

Power supply in villages still uncertain, they say

Ecuador annuls austerity decree, restores fuel subsidy

Decree 833 will be replaced with a new one that contains mechanisms to focus resources on who needs it most, said President Lenín Moreno

खाद्य प्रणाली शिखर सम्मेलन: किसानों को समर्थन देने से सतत विकास लक्ष्यों को हासिल करना मुश्किल

संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने किसानों के समर्थन से पर्यावरण को होने वाले नुकसान से बचने के लिए मूल्य कटौती और लक्ष्यों को पुनः तय करने ...

Ujjwala scheme successful in terms of number, but is it the same in its intent?

Distributing LPG connection is a job half done as ensuring its sustained usage is a bigger challenge that the government is currently facing

Creative accounting, window dressing apart Centre's COVID-19 relief package 0.5% of GDP: Jean Drèze

The Centre announced a relief package recently and a few other interim measures after the 21-day nationwide lockdown to combat COVID-19 left …

जी-20: कोयला सेक्टर को दोगुना सब्सिडी दे रहे हैं बड़े देश

पिछले तीन सालों के दौरान जी-20 देशों ने कोयले पर दी जाने वाली सब्सिडी दोगुनी कर दी है। जबकि इन देशों ने वचन दिया ...

क्या है एक राष्ट्र, एक राशन कार्ड योजना

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