| APMC amendment on cards | 18-NOV-09 |
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| The West Bengal government is actively considering an amendment to the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act 1972, as the matter is being deliberated at the “highest level”, according to a senior government official. |
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| Cooperating for cooperatives | 09-NOV-09 |
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| The Central government’s proposal to amend the Constitution, during the winter session of Parliament, to make it obligatory for the states to ensure autonomy and democratic functioning of cooperatives is a welcome, if belated, move. However, there are limits to what even constitutional amendments can do in reviving institutions that have been deliberately subverted by rival political institutions at the state level. If a Constitution amendment was all that was required to revive panchayats, the 73rd amendment ought to have done it. Cynics would suggest that state-level politicians will do to this amendment on cooperatives what they did to the one on panchayats. Barring exceptions in a few sectors and states, the cooperative sector, particularly cooperative credit societies numbering over 120 million, has for a long time been in a shambles with all kinds of vested interests using them as personal fiefdoms and ladders to political power and means of personal aggrandisement. |
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| SC grants NTPC chance to oppose RIL amendment | 02-OCT-09 |
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| The Supreme Court has granted NTPC Ltd a chance to oppose the amendment made by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) in the Bombay High Court, where the dispute between the two companies is pending over gas pricing. |
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| The 'L' word | 21-SEP-09 |
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| The introduction of the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill (2009) has the potential to derail economic development. |
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| Anil welcomes govt's proposed amendments to gas SLP | 01-SEP-09 |
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| Welcoming the amendments proposed by the government to its petition on the Ambani gas row, Anil Ambani today said his group company RNRL's dispute with Mukesh-led RIL was commercial and pertained to the demerger of the Reliance businesses. |
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| In a huff | 20-AUG-09 |
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| It may be a coincidence, but Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee hasn’t attended any cabinet meeting after she almost threatened to walk out of a cabinet meeting in the third week of July over the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill. On that occasion, Banerjee had to argue with not only Rural Development Minister C P Joshi but also other Congress ministers like Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal who wanted to pass the bill immediately. While she has been in West Bengal for her political programmes, she was in Delhi in the first week of August when a Cabinet meeting took place. On that occasion, she chose to attend a private party of a party colleague instead. |
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| 'RJD should go back to Congress' | 16-AUG-09 |
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| Have you met your successor in the rural development ministry, CP Joshi? His aides told us he wanted to meet you for tips about the ministry. |
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| Menace of retrospective amendments | 10-AUG-09 |
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| Retrospective amendments are becoming a regular phenomenon in recent budgets. Such proposals for amendments are being resorted to primarily to neutralise the interpretation given by the courts or tide over adverse decisions against the Revenue Department. |
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