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Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
As if to make WPI relevant to the changed scenario, items which constitute core inflation would get more weight in WPI
Follows a move to restructure centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) and reduce their numbers
Interview with senior economist and policy advisor
The Centre is expected to increase the dearness allowance by 10% to 100% by the end of February
It has been slashed by 87.5% from Rs 20,000 for three years to just Rs 2,500
Annual state plan outlay currently does not incorporate Centrally Sponsored Schemes
With only Rs 35,000 cr budgeted towards oil subsidy, food, fertiliser and oil ministries may have to mobilise resources via bonds, special banking arrangements
IEO head writes to PM saying that high inflation is a story of administrative mistakes and nothing else
This would be particularly so if the government's procurement of wheat is more than 30-35 million tonnes during the year, which is usually the norm
Govt proposal to put in place adequate safeguards to protect the interest of small traders
Allocation rise likely to remain flat in interim Budget, given the limited room for manoeuvre
For 2014-15, the bill on this account is likely to be 12.8% more than in 2013-14
Farm ministry meanwhile has struck to its assessment that any subsidy below Rs 3,500 per tonne not feasible
Co-ops blame incentives for milk powder export; private firms say state-supported entities inefficient in procurement
CGP India Investments, an indirect Mauritian subsidiary of Vodafone International Holdings BV, had approached the FIPB with the proposal
Govt may raise quantum of raw sugar subsidy to Rs 3,500 per tonne
Exports of farm products rose 34.52% in 2010-11, 55.56% in 2011-12 and 24.08% in 2012-13