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Polls, Pulses and Food Security Plans of Modi Government Indian Governments' recent actions may discourage Investors' and Traders' Bihar elections have exposed the policy flaw of Modi Government towards food security. Lack of focus on food security and food inflation will cost political goodwill of this government. Only 0.3 percent of India, i.e. 3.7 million people, with income more than USD 100,000 may have priority for bullet train and smart cities but rest of India i.e. 1270 million people still look for food security and affordable food supplies, education and health services as priority. Land and productivity is stagnant, but population is and income is growing. This will lead to massive food inflation in coming days. Where are these plans? Recovery of 83,000 tons of pulse after 8500 raids is a joke in trading history of India. Any trader or dealer orders minimum one truck load of material. Seized material clearly indicates, the average is

Why role of 'Eminent People' should be scrutinized publically? Why most institutions failed to deliver as per expectations? The Bench, led by Justice J S Khehar, held as “ultra vires” the 99th Constitutional Amendment Act and the NJAC Act, which had proposed that appointments be done by a six-member body, headed by the Chief Justice of India, and including two seniormost SC judges, the Union Law Minister and two “eminent” persons. These two would be selected by a panel including the Prime Minister, the CJI and the leader of the largest Opposition party in the Lok Sabha. - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/sc-strikes-down-njac-revives-collegium-system-of-appointing-judges/#sthash.lwQZ0kiQ.dpuf The Bench, led by Justice J S Khehar, held as “ultra vires” the 99th Constitutional Amendment Act and the NJAC Act, which had proposed that appointments be done by a six-member body, headed by the Chief Justice of India, and includ

Agriculture Insurance - Learnings from Global Best Practices Presented at Workshop on Best Practices in Agricultural Insurance in South Asia             For any help in designing the agriculture insurance products or any discussion on this topic, you may contact the Author. Pl. do send your feedback on the same and also suggest if any important point is missed out. Looking forward for your feedback.

Poultry Industry at Cross Roads - Need for Out-of-Box Thinking - at Poultry Federation of India Discussion at Annual General Meeting     This presentation was delivered in the presence of Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Government of India, Dr. Sanjeev Balian ji, Hon'ble Minister for Agriculture, State of Haryana Government, Sh. Om Prakash Dhankar ji, Hon'ble Minister for Transport, State of Haryana Government, Sh. Pawar ji and MLAs and senior poultry industry and poultry farmer leaders.   All the points were agreed in principle by Hon'ble Ministers and now government is looking for input for drafting suitable policies. Pl. do share your inputs  and views on the following.       Do send your feedback and ideas how to make Indian Poultry industry globally competitive . Share this blog and seek inputs from your friends for making good policy documents on the above mentioned points. Do wri

Are these UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) or Un-sustainable Goals on Food Security Sustainable? Are these Goals Sustainable? Pl. read below to develop your own opinion. Why proposed UN SDGs on food security and nutrition are unsustainable? By: Vijay Sardana President of the General Assembly of United Nations has submitted draft outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda and proposed 17 Sustainability Development Goals. World leaders will endorse and sign this charter in September 2015 in New York. Let me share my views on one Sustainable Development Goal i.e. SDG 2.  It  says, End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. It says many good things but the way global political system works I have doubt whether these Goals can be achieved in the provided time frame with the available resources.  According to UN Sustainable Development Goal (UN