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FCI Recruitment 2022: Apply for over 5,000 non-executive posts from 6 September
Trendingdesk •The recruitment drive intends to fill 5,043 vacancies for posts such as assistant grade 3, junior engineer, typist, and stenographer grade 2 and others in FCI depots and offices
Union Budget 2021: Slashed funds for NREGA, Poshan Abhiyan 2.0, elderly pensions reflect poorly on Centre
Swati Narayan •The biggest hoodwink is the starved Poshan Abhiyan 2.0, which though merges the Supplementary Nutrition Programme and the Poshan Abhiyan, has been allocated an amount less than what was prescribed for Anganwadi services in 2020
New farm laws essential for long-term sustainability of agriculture, promoting private participation in farming
Anandkochukudy •The Centre needs to convince the farmers of the short and long-term benefits of these new laws, and ensure that reforms in the agriculture sector are here to stay
Budget 2020 farmer-friendly; takes steps to enhance rural employment livelihood opportunities
Ashok Varma •The allocation announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for rural development in the Union Budget is notable.
Budget 2020: Govt must give priority to agriculture, empower farm sector to revive economy; don't hand out doles and sops
Rnb •In Budget 2020, it is fervently hoped that the government will focus on genuinely empowering the farm sector.
Bank credit growth lowest since October 2017, supply-demand situation may normalise by June 2020; all this and more on Moneycontrol Pro
Moneycontrol •Non-food credit, or bank loans other than to the Food Corporation of India for their crop procurement operations, is now growing at its slowest pace in two years.
Economic slowdown, credibility of fiscal deficit number; all this and more on Moneycontrol Pro
Moneycontrol •Nonetheless, the central bank concluded that the recent deceleration in the economy is in the “nature of a soft patch mutating into a cyclical downswing, rather than a deep structural slowdown.”
Inter-state portability of ration card begins in 4 states; to be rolled out across India by June 2020: Ram Vilas Paswan
•In these four states, both intra-state and inter-state portability of ration card is being implemented successfully, Paswan said.
Union Budget 2019: Nirmala Sitharaman presents ‘no-change’ Budget; one mustn't read too much into numbers
Madan •The Budget speech had spoken of what all has been given in the interim Budget and not made any concession here. Therefore, there is nothing specific for households here.
Farm distress: Not just debt, small landholding and poor access to market are also killing farmers: Report
Yatishyadav •The NIRDPR cited poor implementation of agricultural marketing reforms and low reach of minimum support price (MSP), which was adding to the farmers' distress.