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New Indian Express
27-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
India fails to meet target of doubling farmers' income: Report
NEW DELHI: Most of the states in India failed to achieve the goal to double farmers' incomes (DFI) by the 2022-23 period, a target set by the Narendra Modi government in 2016-17. However, Bihar, Uttarakhand, along with the Union Territories, have successfully achieved this goal. This information was revealed in a new policy paper titled 'Doubling Farmers' Income: A Promising Target Fraught with Challenges,' released by former Union Agriculture Secretary Siraj Hussain. The analysis indicates that India has fallen short of the DFI goal by 25 per cent. Furthermore, the contribution of the farm sector to doubling farmers' incomes has decreased compared to the non-farm sector. In 2016-17, the Indian government set the goal of doubling farmers' total income by 2022-23, using 2015-16 as the baseline year. The study extrapolated farmers' income from 2018-19 to 2022-23 and compared it with the government's target. It showed that only two states—Bihar and Uttarakhand—and the combined North-eastern states achieved the target. The study suggests that the possibility of attaining DFI in the near future is higher in states like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan, as these states have registered income growth trends ranging from 20% to 50%. However, the study emphasizes the slim chances of achieving the DFI goal in five states: Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, and West Bengal.
New Indian Express
23-04-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
SC asks Union Minister Shivraj Chouhan, Congress MP Vivek Tankha to amicably settle defamation case
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Tankha to amicably settle the Asking both Chouhan and Tankha to amicably settle the defamation case, a two-judge bench of the top court led by Justice M M Sundresh and Justice Rajesh Bindal, said, "Please do not make us hear this case. Let us close it. Both of you sit together and settle this." During the course of a brief hearing, the apex court asked the senior lawyers Mahesh Jethmalani and Kapil Sibal, appearing for Chouhan and Tankha to sit together and settle the defamation case. Congress leader Tankha in his defamation complaint has alleged that Chouhan, BJP state president V D Sharma and former minister Bhupendra Singh carried out a "coordinated, malicious, false and defamatory" campaign against him for political mileage by accusing him of opposing OBC reservation in the 2021 panchayat elections in Madhya Pradesh. The allegations were vehemently rejected by Chouhan and others. The Supreme Court had in March this year extended its November 11, 2024 interim order of granting exemption to Union Agriculture minister, Chouhan from personal appearance before a Madhya Pradesh trial court in connection with the criminal defamation case lodged against him and two other BJP leaders of Madhya Pradesh, by Tankha. Earlier on November 11, while granting relief to Chouhan and two other BJP leaders of Madhya Pradesh -- state president V D Sharma and former minister Bhupendra Singh -- the apex court in its order had stayed the execution of bailable warrants against them in the defamation case filed by Tankha. The apex court was hearing the appeal filed by Chouhan against the October 25 order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court refusing to quash the defamation case against him. Tankha, in his complaint in the trial court, had said there were defamatory statements made against him in the run-up to Panchayat elections in the state in 2021. On January 20, 2024, a special court in Jabalpur decided to examine the plea filed by Tankha against the three BJP leaders under Section 500 (Punishment for defamation) of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) and summoned them.
