HT Syndication

In order to effectively curb the menace of stubble burning amid current paddy harvesting season especially in view of COVID-19 pandemic, the district administration ordered that combine harvester machines functioning without Super Straw Management System (SMS) would be impounded.

Deputy Commissioner Deepti Uppal appealed the combine harvester operators to get the Super SMS fitted on their machines. She informed that the state government was providing 50 per cent subsidy on the total cost of getting the SMS fitted on their machines.

The Hawk

The Union Minister of Education, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today said that the New Farm Laws will give a new lease of life to the agricultural sector. The minister was addressing the media at the Media Centre in the Uttarakhand State Secretariat at Dehradun. He emphasised that the laws were aimed at the welfare of the small farmers and will help them in a remunerative price discovery. The minister added that the new framework will end the influence of the middlemen and the farmers would be able to directly sell their produce to the consumer. This, he added, would be beneficial for both the farmers and the consumers.

Indian Express

Not only the Congress, but various political parties and farmers’ organisations have also announced protests against three farm laws across Haryana in the coming three days. The growing resentment has forced the ruling BJP into launching a damage control exercise. Various senior leaders, led by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and BJP state chief Om Prakash Dhankar, began back-to-back meetings with party workers, farmers, arhtiyas and rice miller associations. Various farmer organisations and Opposition have decided to gherao senior BJP-JJP leaders’ residences on October 5 and 6 across Haryana.

Indian Express

Only weeks ago, India, and the entire world, witnessed the spectacle of the country’s employment precarity pour out on its roads and highways — men, women and children, in distress of having lost jobs, income and shelter, with no recourse to social security to protect them in those hard days.

The crisis of precarity, manifested in the plight of the circular migrants, was not created in a day. It grew over a period of time as scarce jobs in industry and services increasingly became jobs which did not offer any employment security. Between 2004-05 and 2017-18, the share of salaried workers outside agriculture without any written contract increased from 60 per cent to 71 per cent. Even ...

Hindustan Times

A frenzy of protests over a troika of contentious central farm laws and break-up of the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance has dramatically reshaped Punjab’s political landscape. Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh lost no time to seize on a potentially game-changing developments to raise his stock, and that of his party, with the Sikh peasantry and arhtiyas, predominantly Hindus, and outwit the opposition – all with an eye firmly on the next assembly elections in early 2022.

At 78, the erstwhile Patiala royal’s razor-sharp political instinct is now increasingly on display as he navigates the dual hotspots – of an unrelen