Category: Livelihood & Skill Development
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Regional Rural Banks in India: Explained
By Tanya Patwal, Amity Law School, Delhi. In India, especially the rural areas, majority of the population had no basic banking facility and had no financial services provided to them. Despite 14 private banks being nationalised in 1969, commercial-turned-national banks couldn’t cater to the rural credit needs. Thus, under an ordinance passed in 1975 on the…
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Government to the Rescue of Domestic Workers
By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. The exploitation of women and children domestic workers is regularly reported and with no rights protecting them. Most of the domestic help have become contemporary slaves. They are everywhere, in our homes, around small dhabas, tea stalls and working in every menial job possible. They work…
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Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: A Study
By Ananya Banerjee, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Farmers’ Suicides The National Crime Records Bureau, in its report for accidental deaths and suicides, stated that a total of 5,650 farmers have committed suicide in the year 2014. The highest incidents of 2,568 farmers’ suicide were recorded in Maharashtra, followed by 898 incidents in Telangana and 826 in Madhya Pradesh…
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Startup India: A Big Boost for Indian Startups?
By Anusmita Mazumder, Department of Law, University of Calcutta. What is a startup and how do they work? A startup company or a startup is an entrepreneurial venture or a new business in the form of a company, partnership or a temporary organisation which is designed to target those sectors which are believed to be in demand…
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Analysing the viability of Net Zero Imports under the Digital India Programme
By Archishman Chakraborty, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. It has been oft repeated with a sigh of cynicism in recurring debates, as to what impedes development in India, as that the heart of the problem lies in the fact that there is no heart at all – a lethargic absence of political will. The current Indian Govt. has…
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Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana: An Analysis
By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana is an institution set up by the Government of India (GoI) to provide funding to the non-cooperate/non-farm sector income generating activities of Micro and Small Enterprises or Unorganised Business Enterprises whose credit needs are below 10 lack provided through various Last Mile financial institutions like Banks,…
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Need for a Common Market for Agricultural Commodities
By Yukti Makan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. India derives approximately 50% of its national income from agricultural business. The marketing of the agricultural produce also varies from nation to nation, from state to state and it even varies within the state. Agricultural market practices need to be uniform in the interest of developing wider markets…
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Atal Innovation Mission and SETU to help grow and shine India?
By Vartika Aggarwal, Vivekanada Institute of Professional Studies The 2015 Budget is one of the most anticipated budgets in recent history. The 2015 budget was highly anticipated as it was a full year budget, which was filed by the pro-business Modi Government and because it has the potential to kick start the lagging Indian economy. The…