After 74 years of economic development under a politically independent State, crores of able-bodied men and women in our country cannot find remunerative work. Crores of those who toil from dawn to dusk do not make enough for a decent human existence.
Continue readingWe are publishing a statement of solidarity with electricity workers issued by the All-India Forum against Privatisation on 3rd Aug 2021.
Continue readingThe financial year 2020-21 was a period when the majority of people in the country went through untold suffering. Crores of working people suffered due to the Corona Virus and due to the national and state level lockdowns. The total size of the economy, measured by the annual value added
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Petrol and diesel account for a huge share of revenue collected by the Central government from excise duty. According to revised budget estimates, excise duty on petroleum products amounted to Rs. 3.6 lakh crore in 2020-21.
Continue readingThe CC of the CGPI expresses its profound grief at the untimely passing away of Comrade Manik Samajdar on July 28, in Kolkota. He was 67 years of age.
Continue readingOn August 6 and August 9, 1945, US Air Force planes dropped two atom bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. This was the first and only time in history that weapons of such deadly capacity had been used to deliberately kill and wreak total destruction on such a large number of men, women and children.
Continue readingBy 19th July, the government had relaxed the order and increased the permissible stock quantity of pulses allowed for wholesalers and millers with a complete exemption for importers. Clearly, the government had fulfilled the demands of the biggest traders of oil and pulses.
Continue readingThe brutal and prolonged incarceration of political activists under the UAPA and the use of the NIA to repeatedly deny bail were some of the issues that dominated the discussion in a meeting on the UAPA, organized by Lok Raj Sangathan on July 25. The proceedings were conducted online. The meeting was attended by a large number of youth and students, women, workers, kisans, political activists and human rights activists.
Continue readingThe 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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