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Labour codes part of neo-liberal project to perpetuate inequality, says economist
2 months, 1 week ago

Labour codes part of neo-liberal project to perpetuate inequality, says economist

The Hindu  

The four labour codes launched by the Union government are part of a neo-liberal project to transfer wealth and resources from one class of society to another, perpetuating inequality and private profiteering, economist R. Ramakumar has said. He was delivering the keynote address on the changing labour laws at an event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kerala Circle …

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5 years after floods, is Kerala equipped for heavy rain?
1 year, 6 months ago

5 years after floods, is Kerala equipped for heavy rain?

Hindustan Times  

On August 15, 2018, 40-year-old Jijo Abraham was across the Indian Ocean in Muscat, but his eyes were glued to visuals from Kerala. Five years later, Jijo’s two storey home, white and brown with a green roof still stands, but carries the markers of the Kerala’s “nootandile pralayam” that claimed lives of 480 and affected over five million people, swallowing …

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Book Review: ‘Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Economic Liberalization’ edited by R Ramakumar
2 years ago

Book Review: ‘Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Economic Liberalization’ edited by R Ramakumar

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:40 IST Distress in the Fields is an exhaustive account of the agricultural policies enforced in India after the 1991 economic reforms and the agrarian crisis that followed. “Economic reforms after 1991 explicitly rejected the need for institutional transformation in agriculture,” writes Prof. Ramakumar in the introductory chapter. Madhura Swaminathan delves into studying interpersonal inequalities …

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AG Refuses Sanction For Contempt Action Against Retired HC Judge & 2 Senior Advocates For Comments On SC In Nupur Sharma Case
2 years, 8 months ago

AG Refuses Sanction For Contempt Action Against Retired HC Judge & 2 Senior Advocates For Comments On SC In Nupur Sharma Case

Live Law  

The Attorney General for India KK Venugopal refused to grant sanction to initiate criminal contempt action against former High Court judge Justice SN Dhingra and Senior Advocates Aman Lekhi and K Ramakumar for their comments criticising the Supreme Court's remarks in Nupur Sharma case.The AG declined the sanction sought by Advocate CR Jaya Skin, who alleged that the comments were …

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Rational & Equitable? Experts Analyze Centre's Affidavit Which Defends COVID Vaccination Policy
3 years, 10 months ago

Rational & Equitable? Experts Analyze Centre's Affidavit Which Defends COVID Vaccination Policy

Live Law  

The Central Government has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court saying that its vaccination policy was formulated based on widespread consultations with experts, state governments and vaccine manufacturers.The affidavit was filed in response to the prima facie observations made by the Supreme Court in its April 30 order that the Centre's vaccine policy was detrimental to right to health. …

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Centre should follow global example and make COVID vaccine free for all, says economist Ramakumar
3 years, 10 months ago

Centre should follow global example and make COVID vaccine free for all, says economist Ramakumar

Firstpost  

The economist’s comments comes in the backdrop of the Serum Institute of India’s hiking the price of its COVISHIELD vaccine. Last week on Wednesday, the Centre, in a document laying out the policy on liberalised pricing from 1 May, stated, “…The present dispensation where private COVID vaccination centres receive doses from the government and can charge up to Rs 250 …

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'Was public technology let free for private profiteering?': Economist slams high pricing of Covaxin
3 years, 10 months ago

'Was public technology let free for private profiteering?': Economist slams high pricing of Covaxin

Firstpost  

The pricing of COVID vaccine COVAXIN at a higher figure than COVISHIELD will keep it even ‘more out of bounds’ for the poorer Indian citizens, said economist R Ramakumar in a series of tweets. On Saturday, Bharat Biotech said it would provide its vaccine to state governments at Rs 600 per dosage, and to private hospitals at Rs 1,200 per …

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Whenever corporate presence grows, small and marginal farmers have a difficult time: Professor R Ramakumar
4 years, 3 months ago

Whenever corporate presence grows, small and marginal farmers have a difficult time: Professor R Ramakumar

Firstpost  

In an interview, Professor R Ramakumar, economist at the school of development studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, explains the lessons India could learn from Kerala Over the past two weeks, the National Capital of India has been raging with farmers’ protests against the three farm bills the Union government pushed through in September 2020. The most controversial …

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Kerala: Cooperatives against corporates
4 years, 5 months ago

Kerala: Cooperatives against corporates

The Hindu  

An important change in the agriculture sector in Kerala in the past five decades has been the rapid shift from cultivation of food crops to non-food crops and conversion of farmlands for non-agricultural use. The State, therefore, never had the need for the kind of Agriculture Produce Market Committee mandis that were established in the major food producing States because …

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Despite environmental benefits, experts doubt efficacy of zero budget natural farming, call for nation-wide scientific studies
5 years, 8 months ago

Despite environmental benefits, experts doubt efficacy of zero budget natural farming, call for nation-wide scientific studies

Firstpost  

Even if Zero Budget Natural Farming as proposed in the Economic Survey and the Union Budget 20198 is adopted nationally, challenges associated with modern agricultural farming like knowledge gap, availability of native seed banks, cold chain facilities, MSP, and marketing issues remain unresolved Hyderabad: The Economic Survey 2018-19 and the Union Budget 2019 pitched for the adoption of Zero Budget …

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'I Rue The Day We Ever Became Farmers': In Rural India, A Struggle To Survive
6 years, 1 month ago

'I Rue The Day We Ever Became Farmers': In Rural India, A Struggle To Survive

NPR  

'I Rue The Day We Ever Became Farmers': In Rural India, A Struggle To Survive Enlarge this image toggle caption Sushmita Pathak/NPR Sushmita Pathak/NPR Onion farmer Sanjay Sathe was so disappointed with how little he made from his recent harvest that he decided to pull a stunt: He sent a money order for his entire profit — a paltry $15 …

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Minimum support price: Unkept promises on cost mitigation, bad formula to determine MSP compound farm woes
6 years, 7 months ago

Minimum support price: Unkept promises on cost mitigation, bad formula to determine MSP compound farm woes

Firstpost  

The cost of purchasing inputs like seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and machinery among others falls under the ‘A2’ cost category, while the cost of family labour is reflected in the ‘FL’ component. In a press release, the government announced that the MSP would be set at 50 percent over the cost of production and vowed to double farmers’ incomes by 2022. …

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Indian Oil eyes $1.5 billion savings with own plant tech
7 years ago

Indian Oil eyes $1.5 billion savings with own plant tech

Live Mint  

New Delhi/Mumbai: India’s biggest oil refiner has developed refining processes that may help it save at least $1.5 billion in costs as well as challenge global giants in the technology leasing business. State-run Indian Oil Corp., which controls nearly half of the country’s refineries, has created its own processes using catalysts and hydro-cracking to convert crude oil into fuels such …

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Targeting a chink in TB bacteria’s armour
10 years, 9 months ago

Targeting a chink in TB bacteria’s armour

The Hindu  

A novel approach adopted by a team of researchers based in Bangalore has opened a window of opportunities to design new antimicrobials that could potentially be used to kill the tuberculosis-causing bacteria. “We targeted a class of proteins never targeted anywhere and in any bacteria,” said Prof. Nagaraja, highlighting the importance of the study. “Since gene expression is the hallmark …

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Capping growth
12 years, 9 months ago

Capping growth

The Hindu  

The regulatory intervention by the RBI has not gone beyond providing a basic legal framework for the functioning of MFIs. The deregulation of micro-credit lending rates by banks has also ensured that they lend to MFIs at high interest rates of 15 to 17 per cent. As MFIs are allowed a margin cap of 12 per cent and an interest …

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