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Agrarian Crisis:Roots: sandeepan Background: In the last 20 years, according to the government’s statistics, more than three lakh farmers have committed suicide in India. The situation of the farmers was never very good to begin with, but has been steadily declining and has reached its nadir right now. Earlier spontaneous agitations by farmers are getting…
Crop Residue Burning The issue of crop residue burning, mainly in Punjab, is in news, continuing the harm to environment and farmers’ health. Paddy is grown on an average area of around 30 lakh hectares in Punjab. After harvest, around 19.7 million tonnes of paddy straw is left in the fields and has to be…
BULLET TRAIN FOR INDIA ? Pros: 1.Reduction in road traffic 2. Infrastructure 3. Economic prosperity 4. Strategically countering China 5. Global image building 6. Would be economical in long run Cons: 1. High cost 2. Failure in other countries.( USA France Taiwan and South Korea) 3. Relatively low air fares 4. Priority could have been…
Simultaneous Elections For Parliament and State Assemblies Pros: 1. Uniformity and easy to understand for people. 2.Cost efficient 3.uniform manifesto for center and states,less confusion for voters. 4.Burden of election commission would lessen 5.easy to implement policies The parties and govts. get a five year continous time for their programmes. 6. The policies of govt….
Public Distribution System By Vishaw Partap Singh India had built the largest, though not necessarily the strongest, PDS in the world. Public Distribution System (PDS) hailed as a means of distribution of essential commodities to a large number of people forms an important constituent of the strategy for poverty eradication and intends to serve the undernourished….
Abortion-A Legal Issue :Sandeepan Abortion was again in news when the Supreme Court of India declined the abortion request of a 10-year-old rape survivor who was reportedly 32 weeks pregnant. Doctors who examined the adolescent opined that an abortion at this stage posed a risk to her life….
Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill 2017 :Sandeepan For river water disputes we have two acts at present enacted by parliament under Article 262 River-Board-Act,1956 The purpose of this Act was to enable the Union Government to create Boards for Interstate Rivers and river valleys in consultation with State Governments. The objective of Boards is to…
Indian Internal Security: challenges and Needs Inspite of many disasters and terrorist attacks, the internal security situation of the country has not shown any marked improvement over the years. Warning signals: The internal security situation is on a slippery slope. Jammu and Kashmir continues to be in the news for wrong reasons with ceasefire violations…
Indian agriculture getting feminised The rural India is witnessing a process of feminisation of agriculture. The share of female labour in the agricultural workforce increased from 39.2% to 41.9% during the period 1999-2000 and 2004-05. Almost all women in rural India today can be considered as ‘farmers’ in some sense, working as agricultural labour, unpaid…
Gorkhaland: A Complex issue West Bengal’s Darjeeling district has been on the boil over a separate state demand and witnessed widespread clashes between Gorkha Janmukti Morcha activists and the police. The tourism sector has been hit hard. Historical aspect: Sikkim gifted Darjeeling to the East India Company in 1835. Historically, until 1905, when the then…