
Zia Haq
Associate Editor at Hindustan Times
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4 days ago |
htsyndication.com | Zia Haq
New Delhi, June 3 -- The Centre is preparing to introduce a stricter law to tackle the issue of fake fertilisers and spurious agricultural inputs - a problem that, according to a recent study, accounts for 40% of total sales by value and causes economic losses to farmers by reducing overall output, HT has learnt. The country already has provisions that ban and criminalise sale of counterfeit pesticides and fertilisers, but seizures and crackdowns are not commonplace.
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4 days ago |
hindustantimes.com | Zia Haq
The Centre is preparing to introduce a stricter law to tackle the issue of fake fertilisers and spurious agricultural inputs — a problem that, according to a recent study, accounts for 40% of total sales by value and causes economic losses to farmers by reducing overall output, HT has learnt. The country already has provisions that ban and criminalise sale of counterfeit pesticides and fertilisers, but seizures and crackdowns are not commonplace.
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5 days ago |
hindustantimes.com | Zia Haq
Recent efforts by the Centre to ramp up output of pulses and oilseeds, which the country imports heavily, such as procurement at minimum support prices (MSP) have been inconsistent, as the key beneficiaries of MSPs continue to be water-guzzling cereals such as rice and wheat, latest Reserve Bank of India (RBI) figures show. While procurement of pulses and oilseeds by the government has increased by several times, it is still far lower than that of wheat and rice.
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6 days ago |
htsyndication.com | Zia Haq
New Delhi, June 1 -- Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said that the Centre would upgrade all hospitals of the Employees' State Insurance Corporations (ESIC) with 200 beds or more into full-fledged medical colleges as part of an ongoing expansion drive. The government also proposes to reserve 40% of seats in these medical colleges for wards of employees with ESIC's health insurance cover, the minister said while inaugurating a 30-bed facility at Kala Amb in Himachal Pradesh.
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1 week ago |
hindustantimes.com | Zia Haq
New Delhi: Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said the Centre would upgrade all hospitals of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporations (ESIC) with 200 beds or more into full-fledged medical colleges, part of an ongoing expansion drive. The government also proposes to reserve 40% of seats in these medical colleges for wards of employees with ESIC’s health insurance cover, the minister said, inaugurating a 30-bed facility at Kala Amb in Himachal Pradesh.
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