Category: Agriculture
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Climate Change on the periphery of Rajasthan State budget 2022
Mitali Soni “Climate change is real. It is happening right now, it is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” Leonardo Di Caprio, Actor & Environmentalist Climate change is the greatest global challenge, which through a multitude of impacts poses a risk to…
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Women Farmers and Union Budget 2019-20: How beneficial is Notional Allocations in Gender Budget!
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Nesar Ahmad and Mahendra Singh Rao[1] Women and Agriculture The agriculture sector in India contributes 16% of the GDP and employs 49% of the total workforce of the country. Public expenditure towards the agriculture sector has been poor, however, the Union government has promised the farmer’s income would be doubled by 2022. The role of…
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ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LAND ACQUISITION AND R&R ACT, 2013: SELL-OUT OR PAYBACK TIME?
Persis Ginwalla[1] Sagar Rabari[2] The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR, hereafter referred to as LARR 2013) was the culmination of decades of struggle by people’s movements against arbitrariness, injustice and land grab. It appeared that people’s voice was finally reaching the portals of power. And…