Wednesday, August 21, 2019



The law doesn’t say anything about how a tenant farmer will be identified and given loans. There are around 15 lakh tenant farmers, according to official estimates, out of which a little more than five lakh were issued tenancy cards by the TDP government. Most belong to the Dalit, Adivasi and OBC communities, and rely almost entirely on agriculture for livelihood.

https://thewire.in/agriculture/new-andhra-pradesh-cultivators-act-unlikely-to-solve-tenant-farmers-problems

Friday, August 2, 2019


While the project claims that there will be zero liquid discharge, Babu Rao says this is “a myth”. “Why can’t these companies demonstrate their green technologies in the already polluted Bollaram, Jeedimetla and Patancheruvu industrial clusters in and around Hyderabad?” he asks.


https://thewire.in/rights/hyderabad-pharma-city-protest-watered-down-laws