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National convention on rainfed agriculture beginsedit
Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRA N) in collaboration with National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India & National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) organised a National Convention on ‘Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture — Restructuring Policy and Public Investments to address Agrarian Crisis at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi on Thursday.
Market Movers: GST relief for realty soon; oil price at 2019 peak; no breakthrough in US-China talksedit
An expert committee set up by the government has recommended setting the minimum wage at Rs 375 a day, higher than the existing rate of Rs 321 for agriculture or unskilled workers and Rs 371 for semi-skilled workers. The ministry of labour and employment had constituted the committee under the chairmanship of Anoop Satpathy, fellow of the VV Giri National Labour Institute, in January 2017 to review and recommend ways to calculate the national minimum wage.
Agriculture can alleviate employment woesedit
Still worse, a Planning Commission report had worked out that between 2004-05 and 2011-12 , about 14 crore jobs were lost in agriculture. Many economists term the migration from agriculture to be a welcome sign. Going by the World Bank prescription, which was doled out back in 1996, India was directed to go for a population shift, translocating 40 crore people from rural to urban areas in the next 20 years, by 2015.
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India’s new ‘attack’ on air pollutionedit
AQIs, for instance, are supposed to inform government response on a day-to-day basis. But it’s not easy. Take seasonal variations in Delhi. During the winter months, the share of pollution from vehicles, biomass burning, firecrackers (at Diwali), stubble burning after harvest, construction and secondary particles increase. During the summer, the influence of road dust and fly ash is high.