The farm sector employs more than 40 per cent of the country's workforce. Letting more money flow to the rural sector can boost consumption and raise GDP growth. It's good economics and good politics.
Penalising farmers and subsidising costly fossil fuel-guzzling machines shouldn't be the solution to NCR’s pollution crisis. In the past, governments nudged farmers towards cultivating wheat and paddy to ensure the food security of the country
The party should talk to women, youth, farmers, the poor and marginalised to find out what it has missed in its electoral promises, and then make the necessary improvements. It cannot afford to be complacent as the stakes are high in this election and the adversary is no pushover
This is the athletes' biggest bout so far, against very powerful people. It is for the dignity of millions of women who have faced sexual harassment and exploitation
The opposition must adopt the following “real and tangible social justice manifesto” if it really wants to attract the depressed classes and make a big dent in the BJP’s “social justice plus Hindutva” plank.
The so-called 'heavy farm subsidisation' is a case of 'heavy reverse subsidisation' of consumers by farmers. The cost of growing food, however high, has to be borne by the state for basic survival of people
Paying for manual harvesting is the cheapest, most eco-friendly and sustainable way out. Government must enable farmers to switch to manual labour to harvest paddy
Pushpendra Singh writes: The SCs and STs are identified as such ‘with respect to any State or Union Territory’ and have only one list and one status at the state and central levels. So, why are the OBCs being identified differently?
🔴 Pushpendra Singh writes: It will encourage crop diversification and food security. Arguments claiming that it is not viable are based on poor data, bad economics
