The prices of six edible oils — groundnut oil, mustard oil, vanaspati, soya oil, sunflower oil and palm oil — have risen between 20% and 60% at all-India levels in the last one year. In May 2021 the price of edible oils reached the highest ever seen during the last 10 years. This is putting a further burden on working people who already been reeling under the highest price of petrol and diesel over the last few months.
Continue readingOn 1st June 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture published a consultation paper called The India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture (IDEA), laying out a proposed framework for ‘AgriStack’. Agristack is planned to be a compilation of digital databases focussing on India’s farmers and the agricultural sector.
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As part of the on-going kisan agitation demanding repeal of the three anti-kisan laws, kisans throughout Haryana held a number of protest actions all over the state on July 11. The kisans had announced their decision to protest at all events organized by the state government in order to press for their demands.
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On 15th July, 2021, the drivers of Indian Railways, protested all across the country, under the banner of All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA). Protests were held at the station lobbies of different divisions of railways – Banaras, Gorakhpur, Mau, Chhapra, Lucknow, Bareilly, Allahabad, Hajipur, Sonpur, Muzaffarpur and Barauni etc.
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Trade unions and workers’ organisations all over the country held demonstrations on July 23 to protest against the EDSO 2021.
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Workers of the Century Yarn & Century Denim Mills, owned and managed by the Birla Group’s Century Textiles & Industries Limited, have been on hunger strike since July 12, at the factory in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh, located about 290 Km from the state capital, Bhopal.
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A nationwide demonstration of power sector workers took place on Monday, 19th July. There was participation of over 60% of the 2 million-plus electricity employees and engineers across the country.
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Conservancy workers (manual scavengers) in Salem, Tamilnadu staged a protest dharna at the municipal corporation office on July 14, demanding settlement of their due wages by the corporation.
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The Manipur branch of the Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) has warned that they will go on strike from July 29 if the government does not meet the nurses’ demand to increase their grade pay and allowance by July 20.
Continue readingThirty years ago, on 24th July, the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh presented the first budget of the Congress-led government headed by Narasimha Rao. Finance Minister Manmohan Singh declared that the balance of payments situation was precarious, with foreign currency reserves not enough to even pay for one month’s imports. … He then unveiled a program of major changes in policies, laws and regulations relating to trade, investment and the public sector, broadly in line with the prescriptions of the World Bank and the IMF.
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